In 1926 the South African Railways placed twenty-three Class 15CA steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain wheel arrangement in service, built by the by American Locomotive Company and numbered 2039 to 2059, 2072 and 2073. Another sixty-one were ordered and delivered in 1929 and 1930, built in four batches by three manufacturers (Baldwin Locomotive Works, Società Italiana Ernesto Breda and North British Locomotive Company). These were numbered in the ranges 2074 to 2077 and 2801 to 2857.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 15CA 4-8-2. |