Mallets built for export by North American locomotive builders

    During the first half of the 20th century, the Baldwin Locomotives Works, ALCO, and the Montreal Locomotive Works built about 150 Mallet-type articulateds for export.   Used in a variety of roles from plantation work to mainline service, on gauges ranging from thirty inches to five feet, these locomotives shared many characteristics with the Baldwin Logging Mallets.  Like the logging Mallets, these were generally small locomotives with driver diameters rarely going above 50-inches.    

    There were many interesting and unusual export Mallets, such as the tiny Ingenio Angelina "Milan," or the Columbian 2-8-8-2t which almost looked like a stretched Uintah #50.  It is also interesting to note that the first Mallets built by Baldwin were four small 0-6-6-0s for the American Railroad of Puerto Rico.

    At the moment, this page will highlight only a few of the many export Mallets, but as time goes by this page will hopefully grow.  Unlike the logging Mallets roster, on this page if a railroad ordered a group of identical locomotives they will all be grouped on the same page.

Photos of many of the export Mallets can be seen at Bruce Pryor's Narrow Gauge From Off the Beaten Path.

 

The following is incomplete:

0-4-4-0

1911 - ALCO - Japanese Nat. Railways 4600 class - six built - 3 ft 6 in gauge - Japan

1916 - Baldwin - Madagascar Railways (six built) - meter gauge - Madagascar

2-4-4-2

1907 - ALCO - Taupo Totara Timber Co. #7 - 42-inch gauge - Putaruru, New Zealand

1910 - Baldwin - Peking-Sunyuan Railway (four built) - standard gauge - China 

0-6-6-0

1904 - Baldwin - American Railroad #s 35-38 - 3-foot gauge - Puerto Rico

1904 - Baldwin - Guayaquil & Quito Railway #s 17-18 - 3ft gauge - Ecuador

1912 - ALCO - Japanese National Railway 9750 class - 24 built - 1067 mm gauge - Japan

1912 - Baldwin - Japanese National Railway 9800 class - 18 built - 1067 mm gauge - Japan 

1914 - Baldwin - Archangel Railway (30 built) - 3 ft 6 in gauge - Russia

1917/1918 - Baldwin - Archangel Railway (47 built) - 3 ft 6 in gauge - Russia

*above not delivered due to Russian Revolution, diverted to British War Dept.  Most later saw use in Iraq 

1918 - Baldwin - Arica-La Paz #?? - meter gauge - Chile

1925 - Baldwin - Insular Lumber Co. #7 - 42-inch gauge - Philippines

0-6-6-0t

1917 - Baldwin - Minas Y Ferrocarril Utrillas #?? - meter gauge - Spain

1920 - Baldwin - Bone Guelma Co. #s 681-690 - meter gauge - Tunisia

1910 - ALCO - Columbian National Railway #20 - 3-foot gauge - Columbia

2-6-6-0

1908 - ALCO - French East Railway (two built) - Standard gauge - France

1909 - ALCO - South African Railways (ex-Natal) - MA Class #1601 - 42-inch gauge - South Africa

1910 - ALCO - South African Railways (ex-Natal) - MB Class #s1602-1606 - 42-inch gauge - South Africa

1918 - Montreal - South African Railways - MJ1 Class #s1666-1673 - 42-inch gauge - South Africa

1912 - ALCO - C.F. Lorenco Marques #s 100-101 - Mozambique

2-6-6-2

8/1907 - Baldwin - Sorocabana #40 - meter gauge - Brazil OF

1908 - Baldwin - Ingenio Angelino #9 "Milan" - 30-inch gauge - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1910 - ALCO - South African Railways (ex-CSAR) - MD Class #1617 - 42-inch gauge - South Africa

12/1910 - Baldwin - Mogyana #s?? - meter gauge - Brazil OF

1/1911 - Baldwin - Sorocabana #?? - meter gauge - Brazil

1911-12 - ALCO - South African Railways (ex-CSAR) - MF Class #s1619-1633 - 42-inch gauge - South Africa

1911 - ALCO - South African Railways (ex-CSAR) - MG Class #1628 - 42-inch gauge - South Africa

8/1911 - ALCO - Rio Grande de Sul #601 - meter gauge - Brazil

2/1913 - ALCO - Sorocabana #615 - meter gauge - Brazil

1913 - Baldwin - Rede Sul Mineras #69 - meter gauge - Brazil

1915 - ALCO - Serbian State Railways #?? - 30-inch gauge - Serbia

1915 - Baldwin - E.F. Victoria Diamatina #s?? - meter gauge - Brazil

1917 - Baldwin - Manati Sugar #18 - 3-foot gauge - Cuba

3/1917 - Baldwin - FCdP Anaconda Copper - 2 built - meter gauge - Chile

1925 - Baldwin - NWR India - 5 ft 6 in gauge - India 

1935, 1937 - Baldwin - E de F Goyaz #404-?? - meter gauge - Brazil

1946, 1949 - Baldwin - E.F. Donna Teresa Cristina #s 200-205 - meter gauge - Brazil

19?? - ALCO - Mogyana #s754 - meter gauge - Brazil

19?? - Baldwin - Viaco Ferrea de Rio Grande do Sul #632 - meter gauge - Brazil

2-6-6-2t

1921 - Baldwin - Ferrocarril Del Sur #9 - meter gauge - Columbia

2-8-8-0

1916 - ALCO - Java State Railway - 8 built - 3 ft 6in gauge - Java

1919 - ALCO - Java State Railway - 12 built - 3 ft 6in gauge - Java

2-8-8-2

1913 - ALCO - Pekin Suiyan Railway - four built - std. gauge -China

1913 - ALCO - Paulista #?? - meter gauge - Brazil

19?? - Baldwin - Paulista #?? - meter gauge - Brazil

1921 - ALCO - Nankow Pass, Pekin Suiyan Railway - seven built - std. gauge - China

1941 - ALCO - Yunnan-Burma - twenty-five built - meter gauge - China

2-8-8-2t

1935 - Baldwin - Ferrocarriles Nacionales (Columbian National Railway) - 3-foot gauge - Columbia

 

Proposed but never built:

1907 - Baldwin - 0-6-6-0 - Wellington & Manawatu Railway - New Zealand

1907 - Baldwin - 2-6-6-2t - Wellington & Manawatu Railway - New Zealand

1940 - Baldwin - 2-6-6-2t - Braden Copper Co. - 30-inch gauge - Chile

 

 

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