South African Class GEA 4-8-2+2-8-4 4022 Owned (Transnet Heritage Foundation) currently stored at Millsite Locomotive Depot awaiting Disposal either scrap or preservation. South Africa + 4023 Owned (Transnet Heritage Foundation) currently on display at the Outiniqua Transport Museum and selected as THF representative of the class for the National Heritage Collection. South Africa South African Class GEA 4-8-2+2-8-4 The South African Railways Class GEA 4-8-2+2-8-4 of 1946 was an articulated steam locomotive. During 1946 and 1947, the South African Railways placed fifty Class GEA Garratt articulated steam locomotives with a 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. The Class GEA 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain type
2-8-8-2 still used on steel mill lines and other railroads until 1983. Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: 1DD1 (also known as German classification and Italian classification) French classification: 140+041 Turkish classification: 45+45 Swiss classification: 4/5+4/5 The first 2-8-8-2 was built in 1909 by Baldwin, who sold two to the Southern Pacific Railroad (classified MC-1), and then three each to the Union Pacific Railroad and UP-owned Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. Baldwin conceived the type as an expansion of the 2-6-6-2 permitting a greater tractive effort. The next order for the type was from the Southern Pacific; these differed in being