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===Spain=== The {{Track gauge|1668mm|allk=on}} network of Spain used one Mikado tank locomotive and two versions of tender locomotives. The Spanish manufacturer MTM delivered six 2-8-2T locomotives to the Madrid-Caceres-Portugal line in 1925. A project at MTM in 1942 to build a big 2-8-2 never realised. The first tender version was built by two American companies in 1917, fifteen by [[Brooks Locomotive Works]] and forty by [[Schenectady Locomotive Works]]. They were numbered from 4501 to 4555 and were a slightly smaller version of the [[USRA Light Mikado]]. The locomotives served well in the Norte system, where they were nicknamed ''Chalecos''. [[File: Museo Ferroviario de Catalunya - 49663968692.jpg|thumb|141F Nos. 141F-2101 and 141F-2348 at the Catalonia Railway Museum]] In 1953, [[RENFE]] (acronym of ''[[Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles|'''R'''ed '''N'''acional de los '''F'''errocarriles '''E'''spañoles]]''), the nationalised railway company, acquired twenty-five locomotives of the second tender version from [[North British Locomotive Company]] (NBL) of Glasgow. Spanish builders MTM, [[MACOSA]] and [[Euskalduna]] and the American [[Babcock & Wilcox]] built 213 more between 1953 and 1960, with only minor detail differences such as double chimneys, Llubera sanders, ACFI feedwater heaters and oil-burning. Their empty weight was {{convert|94|t|1|abbr=off}} and they had {{convert|1560|mm|in|2|abbr=off}} diameter coupled wheels. They performed well in both freight and passenger service and lasted until the official end of steam in common service in 1975. One Norte and eighteen RENFE locomotives are preserved, three of them in good working condition.
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