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===Origin of the name===
There are different opinions concerning the origin of the name Pacific. The design was a natural enlargement of the existing Baldwin {{nowrap|4-4-2}} Atlantic type, but the type name may also be in recognition of the fact that a New Zealand designer had first proposed it.<ref name="Locomotive Development in NZ"/> Usually, however, new wheel arrangements were named for, or named by, the railroad which first used the type in the United States. In the case of the Pacific, that was the [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]] in 1902.<ref name="Pacific Type"/>

In the [[Cape Colony|Cape of Good Hope]] in South Africa, the first Pacifics were delivered from [[Kitson & Company]] in 1903 and designated the [[South African Class 5A 4-6-2|Karoo Class]], from the region of the Cape Western System of the [[Cape Government Railways]] that they were designed to work in.<ref name="Holland 1"/>