PROTOTYPE

The USRA 0-6-0’s were used all over the country on as many as 25 or more different roads. Their short wheel base allowed them to go to around very tight curves on city street trackage and in industrial areas. These 0-6-0’s were a standard design developed during World War I and were in use all the way to the end of steam in the mid 1950’s. Baldwin and Alco both built the 250 plus locomotives of this class, This run of USRA 0-6-0’s represents a good cross section of the railroads that used the coal, and oil fired versions that were in use between 1918 and the mid 50’s.