Taiwan No. 110 Steam Locomotives

The No. 110 class consisted of two 2-6-0 tender steam locomotives built in 1910 and 1911 by the Schenectady Works of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in the United States. The No. 70 class, later the BT40 class after the war, had previously been used between Taipei and Takao (Kaohsiung), but it lacked sufficient tractive effort on the intermediate graded sections. The No. 110 class was therefore ordered to compensate for this weakness. However, perhaps because its performance did not meet expectations, the two locomotives were scrapped in 1934 and 1936 respectively. Compared with the similar JNR 8550 class in Japan, of which more than 60 were built and which remained in service until around 1950, the No. 110 class was a notably short-lived type. No examples have been preserved.