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USRA Light Mikado Type and origin Power type Steam Builder ALCO , Baldwin , Lima Total produced 625 originals plus 641 copies
General arrangement drawing. The USRA Light Mikado 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 light freight locomotive of the USRA types, and was of 2-8-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation , or 1′D1′ in UIC classification .
A USRA Light Mikado type locomotive donated to the Museum of Transportation by the Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway A total of 625 locomotives were built under the auspices of the USRA,[ 1] Baltimore and Ohio Railroad , was completed in July 1918 and given #4500. The locomotives were considered well designed and modern, and were popular and successful. Large numbers remained in service until replaced by diesel locomotives .
With later copies, over 50 railroads used the type, including the following:
Table of original USRA allocation[ 2]
Railroad
Quantity
Class
Road numbers
Notes
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 100 Q-3 4500–4599 [ 3]
Chicago and Alton Railroad 10 L-4 875–884 to Alton Railroad 4385–4394, class Q-8[ 4]
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad 15 N-2 1925–1939 [ 5]
Chicago Great Western Railway 10 L-3 750–759 [ 6]
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad (“Monon”)5 J-2 550–554 [ 7]
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 9 (+11 from T&P) K-55 2300–2308, 2309–2319 [ 8]
Grand Trunk Railway 15 M-3 440–454 to Canadian National Railway 3700–3714, class S-3-a[ 9]
Grand Trunk Western Railroad 25 M-3 455–479 to Canadian National Railway 3715–3739, class S-3-a[ 9]
Lehigh and Hudson River Railway 4 80 80–83 [ 10]
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 18 J-3 1500–1517 [ 11]
Maine Central Railroad 6 S 621–626 [ 12]
Missouri Pacific Railroad 15 (+10 from PRR) MK-63 1301–1315, 1316–1325 [ 13]
Monongahela Railway 10
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway 10 L2-55 650–659 [ 14]
New York Central Railroad 95 H-6a 5100–5194 Renumberd 1800–1894, less 11 to PM[ 15]
New York Central subsidiary Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
25 H-6a 6089–6113 Renumbered 1700–1724[ 15]
New York Central subsidiary Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
24 H-6a 400–423 [ 15]
New York Central subsidiary Lake Erie and Western Railroad
15 H-6a 5540–5554 to Nickel Plate Road 586–600[ 15] [ 16]
New York Central subsidiary Michigan Central Railroad
20 H-6a 7970–7989 Renumbered 1770–1789[ 15]
New York Central subsidiary Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad
15 H-6a 9732–9746 Renumbered 1732–1736[ 15]
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (“Nickel Plate Road”)10 H-6a 601–610 [ 16]
Pennsylvania Railroad 33 Refused;[ 17] [ 13]
Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
5 L2s 9627–9631 [ 17]
Pere Marquette Railway (30) K-8 1011–1040 Acquired secondhand from IHB (14), NYC (11) and WAB (5).[ 18]
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway 3
Rutland Railway 6 H-6a 32–37 [ 19]
Seaboard Air Line Railroad 10 Q-1 490–499 [ 20]
St. Louis – San Francisco Railway (23 from PRR, 10 from IHB) 4000 4000–4032 [ 21]
Southern Railway 25 Ms-1 4750–4774 [ 22] Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway 6285–6294 in 1920
Texas and Pacific Railway 11 H-1 550–560 Refused; to Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific[ 23]
Union Pacific Railroad 20 MK-Spl 2295–2314 [ 24]
Union Pacific subsidiary Oregon Short Line Railroad
20
Wabash Railroad 20 K-2 2201–2220 5 to PM, replaced by 5 from WP[ 25]
Western Pacific Railroad 5 MK-55 321–325 to Wabash in 1920[ 26]
Totals
625
Copies:
References
^ a b c Drury p.409
^ "USRA Locomotives" . Steamlocomotive.com . Retrieved 2009-02-25 .^ Drury pp.39–40, 47
^ a b Drury pp.436, 438
^ Drury pp.440–442
^ Drury pp.107, 110
^ Drury pp.112–113
^ Drury pp.125, 129
^ a b Edson & Corley p.168
^ Drury pp.213–214
^ a b Drury pp.227, 230
^ Drury pp.233, 235
^ a b c Drury pp.248, 254
^ a b Drury pp.258, 260
^ a b c d e f Drury pp.268, 278
^ a b c Drury pp.281, 286–287
^ a b Drury pp.322, 328
^ a b Drury pp.80, 88
^ Drury pp.338–339
^ a b Drury pp.349, 353
^ Drury pp.342, 345
^ a b Drury pp.369, 372–373
^ a b Drury pp.387, 390
^ Drury pp.397, 402
^ Drury pp.420, 422
^ Drury pp.430–431
^ Drury p.185
^ Drury p.256
^ a b c Drury pp.30–31
Drury, George H. (1993), Guide to North American Steam Locomotives , Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Company, ISBN 0-89024-206-2 LCCN 93041472 Edson, William D.; Corley, Raymond F. "Locomotives of the Grand Trunk Railway". Railroad History (147). Boston, MA: The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. ISSN 0090-7847 .
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