Nevada Northern 2-8-2 "Mikado" Locomotives in the USA

Class 5 (Locobase 9925)

Data from Charles Lake, Locomotives of 1907 (London: Percival Marshall & Co, 1907), presented on [], last accessed 31 January 2009, "Heavy Tank Locomotive-Nevada Northern Railway", Railway Master Mechanic, (February 1907), p. 56; [], last accessed 31 January 2009.

The NN was projected and built by Mark Requa and opened in 1906.

According to Nevada Northern's site, this Mikado tank came new to the railroad and cost $15,371. It was the only one with this wheel arrangement o n the railroad and one of the few in the US. In all likelihood, the six axles were thought to allow higher weights on the 60-lb/yard (30-kg/metre) rail that served the NN throughout its operating history.

Obviously ill-suited to the NN's requirements, 5 was converted to a Consolidation tender engine in 1913 and renumbered 80. In the process, its cylinder size was increased by an inch as was its driver diameter. Its sizable tender held 7,500 US gallons(28,388 litres) of water and 12 tons (10.9 metric tons) of coal. In this configuration, 80 remained in service for almost 40 more years before being sold for scrap in May 1951.