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Rhaetian Railway G 2/3+2/2
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works· from 1902· locomotive class
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 25G2322RhBi: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 2. SBB Historic - 041 - 2 2 2 3 gekuppelte 4 Zylinder-Compound-Tender-Lokomotive für die Rhätische Bahn (crop): Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Rhaetian Railway G 2/3+2/2 was an eight member class of metre gauge Mallet-type steam locomotives manufactured by SLM in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1902, and operated until 1920–1921 by the Rhaetian Railway, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The class was so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, G 2/3+2/2 denotes a two bogie narrow gauge steam locomotive, with the front bogie being fitted with three axles, two of them drive axles, and the rear bogie having only two axles, both 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 124 years ago, in 1902.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.6 m long: about 2 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
- 1902
- retired
- 1921
- status
- retired
- number built
- 8
- 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
- 2-4-4-0T Mallet
- length
- 10.6 m
- weight
- 39.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1459095, Wikipedia: Rhaetian Railway G 2/3+2/2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.