#0442
Nord 3.021 to 3.075
🇫🇷 France ·built by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques· from 1880· class of 55 French 0-6-4T locomotives
what is it?
Nord 3.021 to 3.075 were 0-6-4 tank locomotives for mixed traffic of the Chemins de Fer du Nord.
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 146 years ago, in 1880.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.4 m long: about 3 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
- 1880–1883
- in service from
- 1880
- number built
- 55
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques
- designer
- Édouard Delebecque
- operators
- Chemins de fer du Nord
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-4
- length
- 11.4 m
- weight
- 54 t
- nicknames
- Courte-Queue
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q105226635, Wikipedia: Nord 3.021 to 3.075 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.