Most powerful steam locomotive

Most powerful steam locomotive
Who
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Where
United States (Philadelphia)
When
1916

The worlds most powerful steam locomotive, measured by tractive effort, was No. 700, a triple-articulated or triplex six-cylinder 2–8–8–8–4 tank engine built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1916 for the Virginian Railway, USA. It had a tractive force of 75,433kg 166,300lb when working compound and 90,519kg 199,560lb when working simple.