#1881
USRA Heavy Santa Fe
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1919· class of 175 American two-cylinder 2-10-2 locomotives built in 1919
what is it?
The USRA Heavy Santa Fe 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. These locomotives were of 2-10-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or 1′E1′ in UIC classification; this arrangement was commonly named "Santa Fe" in the United States. At the time, the Santa Fe was the largest non-articulated type in common use, primarily in slow drag freight duty in ore or coal service. A total of 175 of these locomotives were constructed under the auspices of the USRA. They went to the following railroads: The Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives were later refitted with the Pennsy's trademark Belpaire fireboxes.
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 107 years ago, in 1919.
- Weighs about as much as 29 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.8 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
- 1919
- status
- retired
- number built
- 175
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, Baldwin Locomotive Works
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-10-2
- length
- 16.8 m
- weight
- 172 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q7866837, Wikipedia: USRA Heavy Santa Fe (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.