The United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class is a class of 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive, designed for heavy freight work in Europe during World War II. A total of 2,120 were built and they worked on railroads across much of the world, including Africa, Asia, all of Europe and South America.

These locomotives were a standard design used by the US Army Transportation Corps (USATC), and shipped to Britain during World War 2 in large numbers ready for the Invasion of France in 1944. Prior to the invasion, they were used by all four of Britain's main railway companies, including the LNER.

The S200 locomotives were introduced in 1941 and were used in the Middle East during the Second World War. Although the class has been popularly adopted as the S160 class the identification for this design it cannot be verified as an …

Credited to a committee headed by Major JW Marsh of the US Army and composed of design engineers from all three US locomotive builders, the S160's design was limited only by loading gauge limitations in Britain and Europe.

The United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class is a class of 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive, designed for heavy freight work in Europe during World War II. A total of 2,120 were built and they worked on railroads across much of the world, including Africa, Asia, all of Europe and South America.

With America’s entry to World War II, the United States of America Transportation Corp. needed an existing design to create a locomotive of sufficient power to use on the disrupted railways of Europe to haul military hardware and goods as the army progressed across the continent.

The United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class is a class of 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive designed for use in Europe during World War II for heavy freight work. A total of 2,120 were built and they worked on railroads across the world, including Africa, Asia, all of Europe and South America.

The United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class is a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotive designed for use in Europe during World War II for heavy freight work.

The United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class is a class of 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotives. They were designed for use in Europe during World War II for heavy freight work.

2021年2月11日 · First Army during the Normandy Invasion. But it was the enlisted men themselves that lent their own nickname – “GI’s” – to the steam locomotive that served as the everyday railway foot soldiers in the war – the United States Army Transportation Corps’ S160-class “GI Consolidations.”