South African Class 15CA 4-8-2

The South African Railways Class 15CA 4-8-2 of 1926 was a steam locomotive. In 1926 the railways placed 23 Class 15CA locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain wheel arrangement in service, and another 61 were ordered and delivered from three manufacturers in 1929 and 1930. The class came from a redesign of the Class 15C, twelve of which had been delivered by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1925 and soon showed cracking frames under the front of the firebox. In 1929 the North British Locomotive Company built 29 engines, numbered 2811 to 2839, and the last 18 of the class were also built by it that year. Nearly forty ended up as heavy shunters at Kaserne and Germiston in Johannesburg.