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 of the USRA types, and was of 0-8-0 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 Railroad
10
F-1
540–549
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway
8
329-336
Erie Railroad
16
C-1
120–135
Kansas City Terminal Railway
5
34-38
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
6
C-2
2118–2123
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
10
39-48
Northern Pacific Railway
4
G-1
1170–1173
New York Central Railroad
25
U-3a
415–439
Renumbered 7815–7839
NYC subsidiary Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
9
U-3a
7440–7448
Renumbered 7740–7748
NYC subsidiary Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
20
U-3a
300–319
NYC subsidiary Kanawha and Michigan Railroad
3
U-3a
553,554,568
Renumbered 9548-9550, then 7758–7760
NYC subsidiary Lake Erie and Western Railroad
3
U-3a
4250–4252
to New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 205–207 in 1923
NYC subsidiary Michigan Central Railroad
10
U-3a
8940–8949
Renumbered 7840–7849
NYC subsidiary Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad
5
U-3a
9543–9547
Renumbered 7753–7757
Pere Marquette Railway
10
1300–1309
to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 40–49
Rutland Railroad
2
U-3
109–110
Southern Railway
20
As-11
1878-1897
West Point Route
1
G
215
West Point Route
2
G
801–802
West Point Route
1
G
115
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
5
C-1
5101–5105
to New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 271–275 in 1949
Total175

After the dissolution of the USRA, an additional 1200 copies of the USRA 0-8-0 were built for many railroads, However, there is a known survivor of this Type, Republic Steel Corp. #285 is an ALCO Product built in 1925, is at the Kentucky Railway Museum, New Haven, KY. It is unknown if any more USRA 0-8-0's of this type exist.