The NMBS/SNCB Type 29 was a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotives built between 1945 and 1946. The class was ordered and used to help revive the operations of the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB) following World War II. The locomotives were built in Canada and the United States, and supplied to Belgium under the auspices of what later became known as the Marshall Plan.[1]
Two members of the class, no. 29.013 & 29.164, have been preserved by the NMBS/SNCB. 29.013 for display at Train World, the Belgian national railway museum at Schaarbeek railway station in north-central Brussels, and 29.164 at a depot near Haine-Saint-Pierre, surviving as mobile steam heater A621.904.
See also
- History of rail transport in Belgium
- List of SNCB/NMBS classes
- Rail transport in Belgium
- China Railways KD7
References
- Dambly, Phil (1994). Vapeur en Belgique [Steam in Belgium]. Vol. Tome 2: De 1914 aux dernières fumées [Volume 2: From 1914 to last smoke]. Brussels: G. Blanchart & Cie. ISBN 2872020136. (in French)
- Smith, J. D. H. "EB/SNCB/NMBS steam locomotives". Standard steam locomotives. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
- ^ 1940-59: War and Peace .... Post-war steam .... SNCB 29 19454. Dorling Kindersley (DK). 2014. p. 198. ISBN 978-1-4093-4796-5.
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