2-8-8-0 "Consolidation Mallet" Steam Locomotives in the USA

The AT&SF (Santa Fe) was the first to experiment with this wheel arrangement. They seemed to enjoy the creation of new locomotives by rebuilding smaller engines into bigger ones. They took two 2-8-0s (Consolidations) and rebuilt them into a 2-8-8-0 configuration. As a result, this wheel arrangement is sometimes called a "Consolidation Mallet". On the Great Northern these were sometimes called the "Bull Moose" type.

Railroads that used 2-8-8-0 "Consolidation Mallet" Steam Locomotives in the USA

Railroads that used 2-8-8-0 locomotives in other countries
Data provided by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Surviving Examples of 2-8-8-0 "Consolidation Mallet" Steam Locomotives in the USA

No.	Class	F.M. Whyte	Gauge	Railroad Line	Location	Status	Builder Info	Notes
3504 (3604)	SA-C-2	2-8-8-0	4'-8½"	UP	Nampa Train Depot Museum, Nampa, ID	display	Alco (Schenectady) #58266, 05/1918	Tender only. Retired in 1954 but tender repurposed for a derick train. Retired in the 1980s. Displayed with UP crane 902006.
900002 (3562)	SA-C-6	2-8-8-0	4'-8½"	UP	Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, CA	display	Alco (Brooks) #65682, 06/1924	Tender only. Engine retired 01/1949.
759	G-2	2-8-8-0	4'-8½"	KCS	Illinois Railway Museum, Union, IL	display		Tender only. The engine itself was scrapped after retirement in February 1952. This tender survived by being converted to MOW service. It was later paired with a former GTW locomotive and used for switching at Northwest Steel & Wire.

Wes Barris