USATC S118 Class

Based on Australia's new C17 class locomotives, their specifications were forwarded to the United States where the United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) drew up plans for a 2-8-2 with specifications similar to a C17 class. 741 were built in the period late 1942–1945 with a further 52 appearing between 1945 and 1948. Twenty (216–235) were delivered to Queensland where they formed the Queensland Railways' AC16 Class. Others were sent to North Africa, the Gold Coast (Africa), Iraq, India, and Burma. After the war, surplus locomotives were sold to Malaya, the Philippines (as Manila Railroad 850 class), Siam, Cambodia, Cameroon, Tanganyika, northern Argentina, Taiwan and the United Fruit Company (for operations in Costa Rica and Honduras). ==Copies==

Baldwin built 33 copies for the Indian Railways, Porter built two for the Chemins de Fer des Grands Lacs in the Belgian Congo, Vulcan built a batch of eight for the Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways (SPAP) in Greece (class Δ). Davenport built six with a higher boiler pressure for the Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien de Djibouti á Addis-Ababa. ==Survivors==

14 S118 locomotives were preserved: ==References==