USATC S100 steamer - 2
This new release incorporates all-new tooling with a diecast
boiler, a five-pole can motor with flywheels, NMRA RP-25 pro-
file wheels, knuckle couplers, and is DCC-ready. The model is
available lettered for U.S. Army Transportation Corps, Granite
Rock Co., E.J. Lavino, and Albemarle Paper Manufacturing.
MSRP is $219.99.
In 1942, the USATC ordered 382 S100s from Davenport
Locomotive Works of Iowa, H. K. Porter Inc. of Pittsburgh, PA
and Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes-Barre, PA. The U.S. Army
shipped these locos to Great Britain in 1943. They were stored
in the UK until being shipped to continental Europe after D-Day.
With the end of the war, the engines were spread around the
world. The French National Railway Company bought 77 S100s
and designated them class 030TU. The Yugoslav State Railways
bought many S100s and designated them class 62. In the
1950s, copies were built locally, bringing the number of class
62 locos to 129. The Hellenic State Railways in Greece acquired
20 S100s and designated them class delta-alpha. The Austrian
state railway acquired 10 as their class 989, and Italy acquired
four and designated them class 831.
The Oranje-Nassau Mijnen, a coal mining company in The
Netherlands acquired two S100s (USATC 4389 and 1948)
and numbered them ON-26 (Davenport 2533) and ON-27
(Davenport 2513) respectively. The ON-26 survived the
scrapyard and was sold to the museum railway Stoomtrein
Goes-Borsele.
The Southern Railway in Great Britain bought 15 S100s (14
for operational use and one for spare parts) and designated
them as the USA Class. Other S100s entered British industrial
use with the National Coal Board, Longmoor Military Railway,
Austin Motor Company and others.
China acquired about 20 S100s, designating them class XK2. In
1946, Egyptian State Railways bought eight and numbered them
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