SNCB 2-8-0

An example seen in 1964, location not stated.

Following WW2 a total 300 of the Belgian Type 29 2-8-0 steam locomotives were built 1945--1946 in Canada and the USA . The class was ordered and used to help revive the operations of the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB) under the auspices of what later became known as the Marshall Plan.

Final withdrawal from service took place in 1967

One member of the class, no. 29.013, has been preserved by the NMBS/SNCB for display at Train World, the Belgian national railway museum at Schaarbeek railway station in north-central Brussels.

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