#1215
Pennsylvania Railroad de Glehn locomotive
🇫🇷 France ·built by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques· from 1904· class of 1 American 4-4-2 locomotive imported from France
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Pennsylvania Railroad No. 2512 de Glehn: Autor/in unbekannt· Public domain
- 2. Image from page 271 of "Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1901) 2512: Internet Archive Book Images· CC0
what is it?
The Pennsylvania Railroad's no. 2512 was a single de Glehn Compound 4-4-2 "Atlantic" type locomotive the railroad imported from France in 1904.
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 122 years ago, in 1904.
- Served for 8 years (1904–1912).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1904
- in service from
- 1904
- retired
- 1912
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques
- operators
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-2
- nicknames
- "de Glehn", "the French aristocrat"
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24894311, Wikipedia: Pennsylvania Railroad de Glehn locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.