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Landquart-Davos G 3/4
🇱🇺 Luxembourg ·built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works· from 1889· class of 16 Swiss meter-gauge 2-6-0T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. G 3 4: Rainerhaufe· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Landquart-Davos G 3/4, also known as the Rhaetian Railway G 3/4, was a class of lightweight metre gauge 2-6-0T steam locomotives operated from 1889 by the Landquart-Davos Narrow Gauge Railway (LD), 1895 renamed to Rhaetian Railway (RhB) in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The G 3/4 class was so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, G 3/4 denotes a narrow gauge steam locomotive with a total of four axles, three of which are drive axles.
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 137 years ago, in 1889.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 88 years (1889–1977).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1889–1908
- in service from
- 1889
- retired
- 1977
- status
- retired
- number built
- 16
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- builders
- Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works
- operators
- Rhaetian Railway, Swiss Federal Railways, Deutsche Reichsbahn, Société anonyme luxembourgeoise des chemins de fer et minières Prince-Henri, Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, Domodossola–Locarno railway line
- top speed
- 45 km/h
- power
- 184 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0
- length
- 8 m
- weight
- 30.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q688470, Wikipedia: Landquart-Davos G 3/4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.