High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USRA 2-8-8-2 was a USRA standard class of steam locomotive designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. These locomotives were of 2-8-8-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or (1`D)`D1` in UIC classification. A total of 106 locomotives were built to this plan for the USRA; postwar, it became a de facto standard design.