USRA Light Mikado

The USRA Light Mikado 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 light freight locomotive of the USRA types, and was of 2-8-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or 1′D1′ in UIC classification.A total of 625 locomotives were built under the auspices of the USRA, with a further 641 copies built after the end of the USRA's control. The first, for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was completed in July 1918 and given #4500. The locomotives were considered well designed and modern, and were popular and successful. Large numbers remained in service until replaced by diesel locomotives. It was also called the McAdoo Mikado after William Gibbs McAdoo, head of the USRA.
With later copies, over 50 railroads used the type, including the following:
Table of original USRA allocation
Railroad 	Quantity	Class	Road numbers	Notes
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by Baldwin.
Scrapped 1959. 4500 preserved.
Chicago and Alton Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO. To Alton Railroad 4385–4394, class Q-8. Scrapped 1941-1952
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO-Schenectady.
Scrapped 1942-1955.
Chicago Great Western Railway 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by Baldwin. Scrapped 1944-1951.
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad ("Monon") 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO-Schenectady.
Scrapped 1947-1949
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1919 by Baldwin And ALCO. Scrapped 1942-1945 and scrapped 1947-1951
Grand Trunk Railway 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO to Canadian National Railway 3700–3714, class S-3-a. Scrapped 1958-1959.
Grand Trunk Western Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO to Canadian National Railway 3715–3739, class S-3-a. Scrapped 1959-1960.
4070/3734 preserved
Lehigh and Hudson River Railway 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by Baldwin.
Scrapped 1942-1948.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1919 by Lima.
Scrapped 1951-1954.
Maine Central Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1919 by ALCO. Scrapped 1953.
Missouri Pacific Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1926 by ALCO-Brooks.
Scrapped 1947-1950
Monongahela Railway 	 	 	 	Built 1919; by ALCO-Schenectady.
Scrapped 1941-1949
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO-Schenectady.
All scrapped in 1951.
New York Central Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918-1919 by ALCO and Lima.
Renumbered 1800–1894, less 11 to PM. Scrapped 1944-1955.
New York Central subsidiary Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway	 	 	 	Built 1918 by Baldwin. Renumbered 1700–1724. Scrapped 1944-1952.
New York Central subsidiary Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO. 10 to SLSF, others to PM.
Scrapped 1949-1950
New York Central subsidiary Lake Erie and Western Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by Baldwin.
To Nickel Plate Road 586–600. Scrapped 1947-1957. 587 preserved.
New York Central subsidiary Michigan Central Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO. Renumbered 1770–1789. Scrapped 1947-1956
New York Central subsidiary Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO. Renumbered 1732–1736. Scrapped 1945-1955
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway ("Nickel Plate Road") 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO.
Scrapped 1940-1950
Pennsylvania Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1919 by ALCO. Refused; 10 to MP, 23 to SLSF.
Scrapped 1948-1949
Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1919 renumbered PRR 9627-9631. Scrapped 1949-1953
Pere Marquette Railway 	 	 	 	Built 1919-1920 by ALCO and Lima.
Acquired secondhand from IHB (14), NYC (11) and WAB (5). To C&O 2350–2379 Scrapped 1952
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by Baldwin . Scrapped 1949-1951
Rutland Railway 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO-Schenectady.
Scrapped 1951-1952
Seaboard Air Line Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO. Renumbered 490-499 in 1925. Scrapped 1954-1957.
St. Louis – San Francisco Railway 	 	 	 	Built 1919 by ALCO. Scrapped 1950-1951.
4003 and 4018 preserved.
Southern Railway 	 	 	 	4765–4775.
To subsidiary Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway. Renumbered 6285–6294 in 1920
Texas and Pacific Railway 	 	 	 	Refused; to Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific.
Union Pacific Railroad 	 	 	 	One, No. 2357, is preserved.
Union Pacific subsidiary Oregon Short Line Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by Baldwin. Scrapped 1945-1953
Wabash Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1918 by ALCO. 5 to PM, replaced by 5 from WP Scrapped 1950-1955: Wabash
Western Pacific Railroad 	 	 	 	Built 1919 by Baldwin . Sold to Wabash in 1920. Scrapped 1949-1956
Totals 	698 	 	 	
Copies:
Table of USRA copies
Railroad 	Quantity	Class	Road numbers	Notes
Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad 	 	 	 	
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 	 	 	 	
Canadian National Railway (Grand Trunk (Western)) 	 	 	 	
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 	 	 	 	
Chicago and Alton Railroad 	 	 	 	to Alton Railroad 4395–4399, class Q-8a
Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway 	 	 	 	
Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad 	 	 	 	
Florida East Coast Railway 	 	 	 	
Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway 	 	 	 	
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 	 	 	 	
Midland Valley Railroad 	 	 	 	
Missouri Pacific subsidiary International-Great Northern Railroad	 	 	 	
Mobile and Ohio Railroad 	 	 	 	
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México 	 	 	 	
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway 	 	 	 	
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway ("Nickel Plate Road") 	 	 	 	
Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway 	 	 	 	
Pere Marquette Railway 	 	 	 	to C&O 1060–1069
Seaboard Air Line Railroad 	 	 	 	
Southern Railway subsidiary Alabama Great Southern Railroad 	 	 	 	
Texas and Pacific Railway 	 	 	 	
West Point Route (Atlanta and West Point Rail Road) 	 	 	 	
West Point Route (Georgia Railroad) 	 	 	 	
West Point Route (Western Railway of Alabama) 	 	 	 	
Total 	641 	 	 	
==Preservation==
Nine USRA Light Mikados both originals and copies are preserved. These are Frisco 4003 at the Fort Smith Trolley Museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Frisco 4018 at the Sloss Furness in Birmingham, Alabama, Nickel Plate Road 587 at the Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesville, Indiana, Nickel Plate Road 624 at Hammond, Indiana, but is now being relocated to Headwaters Junction, Nickel Plate Road 639 in Miller Park at Bloomington, Illinois, Baltimore and Ohio 4500 at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, Grand Trunk Western 4070 at Midwest Railway Preservation Society in Cleveland, Ohio, Union Pacific 2537 at Jefferson Park in Walla Walla, Washington, and C&IM 551 at the St. Louis Transportation Museum.
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