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Pennsylvania Railroad class H6
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Pennsylvania Railroad· from 1899· class of 1,707 American 2-8-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Pennsylvania Railroad 2-8-0 2846: O484· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class H6, H6a, and H6b steam locomotives were of the 2-8-0 "Consolidation" freight type, the most numerous class on the railroad with 1,707 units and the second most prolific 2-8-0 class in North America, with the USATC S160 Class rostering 88 units more. The three subclasses differed as follows: In the 1920s, 699 H6a and H6b had superheaters added, and cylinder size increased from 22 in (560 mm) to 23 in (580 mm). These rebuilt units were reclassified to H6sa and H6sb.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 127 years ago, in 1899.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1899–1913
- retired
- 1958
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2,034
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pennsylvania Railroad, Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Company, Altoona Works
- operators
- Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, South Manchuria Railway, Manchukuo National Railway, China State Railway Group
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-0
- length
- 19.8 m
- weight
- 92.9 t
- nicknames
- ペンソリ Pensori
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7120487, Wikipedia: Pennsylvania Railroad class H6 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.