USRA Light Santa Fe


The USRA Light 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 94 of these locomotives were constructed under the auspices of the USRA. They went to the following railroads:
RailroadQuantityClassRoad numbersNotes
Ann Arbor Railroad
4
L
190–193
Renumbered 2550–2553, reclassified L2, Sold to Kansas City Southern Railway #220–223, September 1942.KCS class L-1
Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad
5
20-24
Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway
10
E-1
506–515
to Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad
New York Central Railroad subsidiary
Boston and Albany Railroad
10
Z-1
1100–1109
Sold to Canadian National Railway #4200–4209 class T-3-a in 1928.
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
15
B-1
485–499
renumbered 2485–2499
Southern Railway
50
Ss-1
5200–5249
Total94

Only one USRA Light 2-10-2 survives: DM&IR 506 is on display at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin