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FS Class E.470
🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Tecnomasio· from 1925· class of 4 Italian electric locomotives
what is it?
The FS Class E.470 was an electric locomotive class of the state-owned Italian railway Ferrovie dello Stato. It was used on the Italian three-phase test line from Rome-Sulmona especially in express train service. After the end of the trial operation in 1945, the locomotives were scrapped, and no locomotive of the class has been preserved.
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 101 years ago, in 1925.
- 2.1 MW is about 25 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1925–1926
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Tecnomasio
- operators
- Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 2.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Three-phase overhead line, 10 kV, 45 Hz
- wheel arrangement
- 1′D1′
- weight
- 91 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3836245, Wikipedia: FS Class E.470 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.