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 locomotive of the USRA types, and had an 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 Drury pp.105–106 Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Erie Railroad Drury pp.179–180 Kansas City Terminal Railway Louisville and Nashville Railroad Drury pp.229–230 Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Northern Pacific Railway Drury p.317 New York Central Railroad Renumbered 7815–7839Drury pp. 275–276 NYC subsidiary Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Renumbered 7740–7748 NYC subsidiary Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad NYC subsidiary Kanawha and Michigan Railroad Renumbered 9548-9550, then 7758–7760 NYC subsidiary Lake Erie and Western Railroad to New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") 205–207 in 1923Drury pp.286–287NYC subsidiary Michigan Central Railroad Renumbered 7840–7849NYC subsidiary Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad Renumbered 7753–7757New York, New Haven and Hartford RailroadTen were built in 1920 (3400-3409), twenty in 1922 initially lettered CNE 13-32 (3415-3434), and five in 1923 (3410-3414). Pere Marquette Railway to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 40–49Drury pp.86–87 Rutland Railroad Drury p.339 Southern Railway Drury pp.372–373 West Point Route (Atlanta and West Point Rail Road) Drury p.31 West Point Route (Georgia Railroad) West Point Route (Western Railway of Alabama) Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway 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 1,200 copies of the USRA 0-8-0 were built for many railroads, There is a known survivor of this Type, Republic Steel Corp. #285, which is an ALCO (Richmond) product built in 1925. It is now preserved at the Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven, Kentucky. Another USRA Copy, Illinois Central #3525, Shortly operated on the Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad and given the name "Big Dixie" before being sold to the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The locomotive would be repainted into a Southern Railway inspired livery, before being traded for an actual Southern Railway locomotive #542. #3525 is now on static display at Tanglewood Park, Clemmons, North Carolina.
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