The USRA 0-8-0 was a USRA standard class of steam locomotive designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. This was the standard heavy switcher locomotive of the USRA types, and had an 0-8-0 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or "D" in UIC classification.
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Power type | Steam |
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Builder | ALCO, Baldwin, Lima |
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Total produced | 175 (plus 1,200 copies) |
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Configuration:
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• Whyte | 0-8-0 |
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• UIC | D h2 |
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Gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
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Driver dia. | 51 in (1,295 mm) |
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Wheelbase | - Locomotive: 15 ft 0 in (4.57 m)
- Loco & tender: 52 ft 10+1⁄2 in (16.12 m)
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Length | 66 ft 1+1⁄2 in (20.15 m) |
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Width | 10 ft 0 in (3.05 m) |
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Height | 15 ft 0 in (4.57 m) |
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Axle load | 55,000 lb (25,000 kg) |
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Loco weight | 220,000 lb (100,000 kg) |
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Tender weight | 144,000 lb (65,000 kg) |
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Total weight | 364,000 lb (165,000 kg) |
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Fuel type | Coal |
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Fuel capacity | 32,000 lb (15,000 kg) |
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Water cap. | 8,000 US gal (30,000 L; 6,700 imp gal) |
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• Grate area | 46.6 sq ft (4.33 m2) |
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Boiler pressure | 175 psi (1.21 MPa) |
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Heating surface: | |
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• Firebox | 190 sq ft (18 m2) |
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• Tubes | 1,796 sq ft (166.9 m2) |
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• Flues | 773 sq ft (71.8 m2) |
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• Total surface | 2,781 sq ft (258.4 m2) |
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Superheater:
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• Heating area | 637 sq ft (59.2 m2) |
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Cylinders | Two, outside |
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Cylinder size | 25 in × 28 in (635 mm × 711 mm) |
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Valve gear | Baker |
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Valve type | 14-inch (360 mm) piston valves |
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A total of 175 locomotives were built under USRA control; these were sent to the following railroads:
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Table of original USRA allocation[1]
Railroad | Quantity | Class | Road numbers | Notes |
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | 10 | F-1 | 540–549 | [2] |
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway | 8 | | 329-336 | |
Erie Railroad | 16 | C-1 | 120–135 | [3] |
Kansas City Terminal Railway | 5 | | 34-38 | |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad | 6 | C-2 | 2118–2123 | [4] |
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad | 10 | | 39-48 | |
Northern Pacific Railway | 4 | G-1 | 1170–1173 | [5] |
New York Central Railroad | 25 | U-3a | 415–439 | Renumbered 7815–7839[6] |
NYC subsidiary Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway | 9 | U-3a | 7440–7448 | Renumbered 7740–7748[6] |
NYC subsidiary Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad | 20 | U-3a | 300–319 | [6] |
NYC subsidiary Kanawha and Michigan Railroad | 3 | U-3a | 553, 554, 568 | Renumbered 9548-9550, then 7758–7760[6] |
NYC subsidiary Lake Erie and Western Railroad | 3 | U-3a | 4250–4252 | to New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") 205–207 in 1923[6][7] |
NYC subsidiary Michigan Central Railroad | 10 | U-3a | 8940–8949 | Renumbered 7840–7849[6] |
NYC subsidiary Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad | 5 | U-3a | 9543–9547 | Renumbered 7753–7757[6] |
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad |
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Y-3 |
Ten were built in 1920 (3400-3409), twenty in 1922 initially lettered CNE 13-32 (3415-3434), and five in 1923 (3410-3414). |
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Pere Marquette Railway | 10 | | 1300–1309 | to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 40–49[9] |
Rutland Railroad | 2 | U-3 | 109–110 | [10] |
Southern Railway | 20 | As-11 | 1878-1897 | [11] |
West Point Route (Atlanta and West Point Rail Road) | 1 | G | 215 | [12] |
West Point Route (Georgia Railroad) | 2 | G | 801–802 | [12] |
West Point Route (Western Railway of Alabama) | 1 | G | 115 | [12] |
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway | 5 | C-1 | 5101–5105 | to New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") 271–275 in 1949[7] |
Total | 175 | | | |
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After the dissolution of the USRA, an additional 1,200 copies of the USRA 0-8-0 were built for many railroads, There is a known survivor of this Type, Republic Steel Corp. #285, which is an ALCO (Richmond) product built in 1925. It is now preserved at the Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven, Kentucky. It is unknown if any more USRA 0-8-0s of this type exist.