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The South African Railways Class 8X 2-8-0 of 1901 is a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1901 and 1902 the Cape Government Railways placed sixteen 8th Class Consolidation type steam locomotives in service. In 1912, when they were assimilated into the South African Railways, they were renumbered and reclassified to Class 8X. One of them was later converted to a 4-8-0 Mastodon type wheel arrangement and reclassified to Class 8R.〔Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Pretoria, January 1912, pp. 9, 12, 15, 35 (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)〕 ==Manufacturers== The first locomotive of the Cape Government Railways (CGR) Consolidation type 8th Class was designed by H.M. Beatty, the Chief Locomotive Superintendent of the CGR from 1896 to 1910, and sixteen engines were ordered from the Schenectady Locomotive Works in the United States of America. While they were being built, in 1901, Schenectady merged with seven other locomotive builders to form the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).〔 As a result the first two locomotives, numbered 749 and 750, were built by Schenectady in 1901, while ALCO built the rest in 1902. Of those, the first seven were numbered in the range from 351 to 357 and were allocated to the CGR’s Midland System, while the last seven were numbered in the range from 751 tot 757 and joined the two Schenectady-builts on the CGR’s Western System.〔 They were conceived as mixed traffic locomotives, equally suitable for goods and passenger work, and had bar frames, narrow fireboxes, used saturated steam and had cylinders with overhead slide valves actuated by inside Stephenson valve gear.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South African Class 8X 2-8-0」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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