Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.igh Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) S118 Class is a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotive. Built to either 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3/8 in) (metre gauge) or 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge, they were used in at least 24 different countries across the World. 741 were built in the period late 1942–1945 with a further 52 appearing between 1945 and 1948. They were built by Baldwin (253+33), Alco (338), Porter (25+5), Davenport (67+6) and Vulcan (58+8) in the USA. The first thirty were numbered 3000–3029, with subsequently locomotives numbered 130–249, and 257–889. Locomotives 640–660 and 789–810 were cancelled. The S118 class were the most widely-spread of all the locomotives of the Second World War. The first first twenty locomotives (3000–3019) were sent to Nigeria. Eleven, (190–200), were converted to 3 ft (914 mm) gauge by putting 3 in (76.2 mm) wide spacers (rings) between the wheels and the truck side frames on same length axles, and delivered to the White Pass and Yukon Route in Alaska. Twenty (216–235) were delivered to Queensland where they formed the Queensland Railways AC16 Class.

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