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USATC S118 Class
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1942· locomotive class
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Atma7104: g7ahn· CC BY 2.0
- 2. 20070420-KORINTHOS-DA-7108: ©2007 K. Krallis, SV1XV· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. EAR 27 class: Unknown photographer (Flickr uploader claims copyright, but image was first published in Kenya (or Tanzania) in 1953 (or earlier) and is therefore Public Domain - see below)· Public domain
what is it?
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.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 84 years ago, in 1942.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1942–1948
- retired
- 1959
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 793
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Davenport Locomotive Works, H.K. Porter, Inc., Vulcan Iron Works
- operators
- Transportation Corps, Dollywood Express, Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 914 mm 3 ft narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
- length
- 18 m
- weight
- 54 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q1407527, Wikipedia: USATC S118 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.