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 obviously 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:

Table of original USRA allocation
Railroad Quantity Class Road numbers Notes
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
10
F-1
540–549
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway
8
Erie Railroad
16
C-1
120–135
Kansas City Terminal Railway
5
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
6
C-2
2118–2123
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
10
—
—
 Refused, to New York Central System
Northern Pacific Railway
4
G-1
1170–1173
New York Central Railroad
25
(+9 from MKT)
U-3a
415–439
 Renumbered 7815–7839
NYC subsidiary Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
9
(+1 from MKT)
U-3a
7440–7449
 Renumbered 7740–7749
NYC subsidiary Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
20
U-3a
300–319
NYC subsidiary Kanawha and Michigan Railroad
3
U-3a
9548–9550
 Renumbered 7758–7760
NYC subsidiary Lake Erie and Western Railroad
3
U-3a
4250–4252
 to New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (“Nickel Plate Road”) 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 Railway
2
U-3
109–110
Southern Railway
14
As-11
19th century
Southern subsidiary Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
5
As-11
6029–6033
Southern subsidiary New Orleans and North Eastern Railway
1
As-11
6849
West Point Route (Atlanta and West Point Rail Road)
1
G
215
West Point Route (Georgia Railroad)
G
2
801–802
West Point Route (Western Railway of Alabama)
1
G
115
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
5
C-1
5101–5105
 to New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (“Nickel Plate Road”) 271–275 in 1949
Total 175

After the dissolution of the USRA, an additional 1200 copies of the USRA 0-8-0 were built for many railroads.