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Rhaetian Railway G 2/2+2/3
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works· from 1896· class of 2 Swiss 0-4-4-2T locomotives
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- 1. Maloja23G22+23RhBi: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The Rhaetian Railway G 2/2+2/3, was a two-member class of metre gauge Mallet-type steam tank locomotives manufactured by SLM in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1896, and operated until 1926 by the Rhaetian Railway, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The two members of the class were so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, G 2/2+2/3 denotes a two-bogie narrow gauge steam locomotive, with the front bogie having two drive axles, but the rear bogie being fitted with three axles, only two of them 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 130 years ago, in 1896.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.3 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 44 years (1896–1940).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1896
- in service from
- 1896
- retired
- 1940
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- builders
- Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works
- operators
- Rhaetian Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-4-2T Mallet
- length
- 10.3 m
- weight
- 36.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1636722, Wikipedia: Rhaetian Railway G 2/2+2/3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.