#1064
Prussian G 5.4
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Unknown builder· from 1901· class of 767 German 2-6-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. WP G5 LBE Nr 67: Werner Hubert· Public domain
what is it?
The Prussian G 5.4 was a German goods train locomotive with a compound engine. Due to its top speed of 65 km/h it was also used on passenger services. The G 5.4, like the G 5.3, differed from the G 5.1 and G 5.2 in having a shorter wheelbase and higher boiler pitch.
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 125 years ago, in 1901.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1901–1910
- retired
- 1948
- status
- retired
- number built
- 767
- kind
- steam locomotive
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Deutsche Reichsbahn, Prussian state railways
- top speed
- 65 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q321189, Wikipedia: Prussian G 5.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.