SNCB Type 29

The NMBS/SNCB Type 29 was a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotives built between 1945 and 1946. The class was ordered and used to help revive the operations of the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB) following World War II. The locomotives were built in Canada and the United States, and supplied to Belgium under the auspices of what later became known as the Marshall Plan.^[1]

NMBS/SNCB Type 29
Preserved 29.013 in 1975.
Type and origin Power type Steam Builder Montreal Locomotive Works: 160 American Locomotive Company: 80 Canadian Locomotive Company: 60 Serial number MLW: 74498–74657 ALCO: 74707–74785 CLC: 2288–2347 Build date 1945–46 Total produced 300
Specifications Configuration: ​  • Whyte 2-8-0  • UIC 1′D h2 Gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge Driver dia. 1,520 mm (59.84 in) Wheelbase 8,407 mm (27 ft 7 in) Loco weight 84.5 tonnes (83.2 long tons; 93.1 short tons) Firebox: ​  • Grate area 4.40 m2 (47.4 sq ft) Boiler pressure 15.75 atm (1.60 MPa; 231 psi) Heating surface 183 m2 (1,970 sq ft) Superheater: ​  • Heating area 73 m2 (790 sq ft) Cylinders Two (external) Cylinder size 22 in × 28 in (558.80 mm × 711.20 mm)
Performance figures Power output 2,000 CV (1,470 kW; 1,970 hp)
Career Operators NMBS/SNCB Class Type 29 Numbers 29.001–29.300 Preserved Two: 29.013 & 29.164 Disposition Two preserved, remainder scrapped

Two members of the class, no. 29.013 & 29.164, have been preserved by the NMBS/SNCB. 29.013 for display at Train World, the Belgian national railway museum at Schaarbeek railway station in north-central Brussels, and 29.164 at a depot near Haine-Saint-Pierre, surviving as mobile steam heater A621.904.

See also

• Trains portal
• Belgium portal

• History of rail transport in Belgium
• List of SNCB/NMBS classes
• Rail transport in Belgium
• China Railways KD7