what is it?
The Mastodonte dei Giovi was a special double steam locomotive built specifically for use on the difficult Apennine stretch of the new Turin - Genoa railway line, inaugurated in 1853.
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 173 years ago, in 1853.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1853–1855
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Robert Stephenson and Company, John Cockerill, John Cockerill & Cie.
- top speed
- 35 km/h
- power
- 285 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0+0-4-0ST
- weight
- 56 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3851649, Wikipedia: Mastodonte dei Giovi (locomotive) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.