SNCB Type 29

{{Short description|Class of 2-8-0 locomotives}}

{{Infobox locomotive

| name = NMBS/SNCB Type 29

| powertype = Steam

| image = NMBS 29.013-III.JPG

| alt = NMBS/SNCB Type 29

| caption = Preserved 29.013 in 1975.

| designer =

| builder = {{unbulleted list|Montreal Locomotive Works: 160|American Locomotive Company: 80|Canadian Locomotive Company: 60}}

| ordernumber =

| serialnumber = {{ubl|MLW: 74498–74657|ALCO: 74707–74785|CLC: 2288–2347}}

| buildmodel =

| builddate = 1945–46

| totalproduction = 300

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| whytetype = {{whyte|2-8-0}}

| uicclass = 1′D h2

| gauge = {{track gauge|sg|allk=on}}

| leadingdiameter =

| driverdiameter = {{convert|1520|mm|in|2|abbr=on}}

| trailingdiameter =

| minimumcurve =

| wheelbase = {{convert|8407|mm|ftin|frac=4|abbr=on}}

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| axleload =

| weightondrivers =

| locoweight = {{convert|84.5|t|disp=br()}}

| tenderweight =

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| fueltype =

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| watercap =

| tendercap =

| sandcap =

| boiler =

| boilerpressure = {{convert|15.75|atm|MPa psi|sigfig=3|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| feedwaterheater =

| firearea = {{convert|4.40|m2|sqft|abbr=on}}

| tubearea =

| fluearea =

| tubesandflues =

| fireboxarea =

| totalsurface = {{convert|183|m2|sqft|abbr=on}}

| superheatertype =

| superheaterarea = {{convert|73|m2|sqft|abbr=on}}

| cylindercount = Two (external)

| cylindersize = {{convert|22|x|28|in|mm|2|abbr=on|disp=br()}}

| valvegear =

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| valvelap =

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| transmission =

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| poweroutput = {{convert|2000|CV|kW hp|abbr=on|sigfig=3|lk=on}}

| tractiveeffort =

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| trainheating =

| locobrakes =

| locobrakeforce =

| trainbrakes =

| safety =

| operator = NMBS/SNCB

| operatorclass = Type 29

| powerclass =

| numinclass =

| fleetnumbers = 29.001–29.300

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| preservedunits = Two: 29.013 & 29.164

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| disposition = Two preserved, remainder scrapped

| notes =

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The NMBS/SNCB Type 29 was a class of {{Whyte|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.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbOBBAAAQBAJ&q=SNCB+Type+29+Marshall&pg=PA198|title=1940-59: War and Peace .... Post-war steam .... SNCB 29 19454|work=The Train Book: The Definitive Visual History|page=198|publisher=Dorling Kindersley (DK)|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4093-4796-5}}

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.

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