USATC S118 Class
SPAP Δ108, later SEK 7108, a post-war S118 copy, displayed at Corinth Old Station, April 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) S118 Class is a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotive. Built to either 3 ft (914 mm), 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge or 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge, they were used in at least 24 different countries across the World.
741 were built in the period late 1942–1945 with a further 52 appearing between 1945 and 1948. They were built by Baldwin (253+33), Alco (338), Porter (25+5), Davenport (67+6) and Vulcan (58+8) in the United States. The first thirty were numbered 3000–3029, with subsequently locomotives numbered 130–249, and 257–889. Locomotives 640–660 and 789–810 were cancelled.
The S118 class were the most widespread of all the locomotives of the Second World War. The first twenty locomotives (3000–3019) were sent to Nigeria. Eleven, (190–200), were converted to 3 ft (914 mm) gauge by putting 3 in (76.2 mm) wide spacers (rings) between the wheels and the truck side frames on same length axles, and delivered to the White Pass and Yukon Route in Alaska. Twenty (216–235) were delivered to Queensland where they formed the Queensland Railways AC16 Class. Others were sent to North Africa, Gold Coast, Iraq, India, and Burma.
After the war, surplus locomotives were sold to Malaya, the Philippines, Siam, Cambodia, Cameroun, Tanganyika,[1] and the United Fruit Company operations in Costa Rica and Honduras.
Copies
Baldwin built 33 copies for the Indian Railways, Porter built two for the Chemins de Fer des Grands Lacs in the Belgian Congo, Vulcan built a batch of eight for the Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways (SPAP) in Greece (class Δ).[2] Davenport built six with a higher boiler pressure for the Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien de Djibouti á Addis-Ababa.
Survivors
Several S118 locomotives still exist:
No. | Builder | Post WW2 Owner | Current Owner | Location | Status | Notes |
190 | Baldwin 69425 | White Pass and Yukon Route | Tweetsie Railroad | Boone, North Carolina, United States | Operational | Named "The Yukon Queen". |
192 | Baldwin 69427 | White Pass and Yukon Route | Dollywood | Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, United States | Operational | Named "Klondike Katie". |
195 | Baldwin 69430 | White Pass and Yukon Route | City of Skagway | Skagway, Alaska, United States | Displayed | |
218 | Baldwin 69453 | Queensland Railways | Zig Zag Railway | Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia | Operational | Named "The Yank" |
221 | Baldwin 69456 | Queensland Railways | Queensland Rail | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia | Operational | |
1798 | Baldwin 74011 | Northeast Frontier Railway | New Delhi, India | Operational | Post war copy | |
Δ-104 | Vulcan 4703 | Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways | OSE | Kalamata, Greece | Displayed | Post-war copy, later SEK No. 7104 |
Δ-108 | Vulcan 4707 | Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways | OSE | Corinth, Greece | Stored | Post-war copy, later SEK No. 7108 |
Gallery
USATC S118 Class locomotives |
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References
- ↑ Tourret, R (1976). War Department Locomotives. Abingdon: Tourret Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 0-905878-00-0. External link in
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(help) - ↑ Durrant 1975, p. 58.
- Durrant, A. E. (1972) [1966]. The Steam locomotives of Eastern Europe. Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4077-8.
- Tourret, R. (1995). Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War. Abingdon, Oxon: Tourret Publishing. pp. 190–207. ISBN 0-905878-06-X.
- Smith, J.D.H. "USATC steam locomotives". Retrieved 2009-02-05.
External links
- http://narrowmind.railfan.net/WPYR/late-steam/190dia.JPG
- http://www.steamlocomotive.com/australia/data.shtml
- http://www.qrig.org/motive-power/steam/ac16-class/
- http://www.railsnorth.com/wpyr-190s.pdf