USRA 0-8-0


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 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or "D" in UIC classification.
A total of 175 locomotives were built under USRA control; these were sent to the following railroads:
RailroadQuantityClassRoad numbersNotes
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad10F-1540–549
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway 8329-336
Erie Railroad16C-1120–135
Kansas City Terminal Railway 534-38
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 6C-22118–2123
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad1039-48
Northern Pacific Railway 4G-11170–1173
New York Central Railroad25U-3a415–439Renumbered 7815–7839
NYC subsidiary Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway 9U-3a7440–7448Renumbered 7740–7748
NYC subsidiary Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad20U-3a300–319
NYC subsidiary Kanawha and Michigan Railroad 3U-3a553, 554, 568Renumbered 9548-9550, then 7758–7760
NYC subsidiary Lake Erie and Western Railroad 3U-3a4250–4252to New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 205–207 in 1923
NYC subsidiary Michigan Central Railroad10U-3a8940–8949Renumbered 7840–7849
NYC subsidiary Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad 5U-3a9543–9547Renumbered 7753–7757
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 35Y-3Ten were built in 1920, twenty in 1922 initially lettered CNE 13-32, and five in 1923.
Pere Marquette Railway101300–1309to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 40–49
Rutland Railroad 2U-3109–110
Southern Railway20As-111878-1897
West Point Route 1G215
West Point Route 2 G801–802
West Point Route 1G115
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway 5C-15101–5105to New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 271–275 in 1949
Total175

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 product built in 1925. It is now preserved at the Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven, Kentucky. Another USRA Copy, Illinois Central #3525, Shortly operated on the Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad and given the name "Big Dixie" before being sold to the North Carolina Transportation Museum, Finally being donated to Tanglewood Park in Clemmons North Carolina.