Russian Government Articulated Locomotives in Russia

Class 101 (Locobase 14398)

Data from DeGolyer, Volume 57, pp. 311+. See also P Allen Copeland, "Baldwin 0-6-6-0 Locomotives Sent to Chile", unpublished manuscript dated 6 June 2009, supplied by Allen Stanley in August 2013 from his extensive Rail Data Exchange collection. Works numbers were 46495-46497 in September 1917 and 46604-46605 in October.

Ordered before the onset of the Russian Revolution in November (Julian date: October) 1917, these engines were essentially repeats of the Archangel Lines Mallets delivered in early 1915 and shown in Locobase 14400. The only significant material change was the adoption of 19" LP cylinders in place of the 18" used in the Archangels.

Of course, the other significant difference was the context. Only five actually arrived in Russia (as opposed to the successful delivery of all thirty 1915 Mallets.) Forty-five of the fifty-one light all-adhesion Mallets were diverted: 39 to Iraq (Locobase 14395), four to Chile (Locobase 14397), and two to Malaya (Locobase 14396).

A sixth, later identified by Baldwin as DD 6 from the 12 20/32 DD 1 to 53 order (although another note from 1924 reported the engine as DD 8), went to Pampauga Sugar Mills in 1924 (Locobase 20479) to be used as a stationary boiler.