#1748
Reading Company C1a Class
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Reading Company· from 1915· class of 4 American 4-4-4 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Reading 4-4-4: Wikimedia Commons· Public domain
what is it?
The Reading Company C1a Class were a type of 4-4-4 steam locomotive built for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway in 1915. Four locomotives were built, road numbers #110-113. They used front and rear trucks that were effectively identical.
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 111 years ago, in 1915.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 1 years (1915–1916).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1915
- in service from
- 1915
- retired
- 1916
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Reading Company
- operators
- Reading Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-4
- weight
- 105 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7300496, Wikipedia: Reading Company C1a Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.