Editing 2-8-4 (section)

===Brazil===
Beyer Peacock delivered four 2-8-4T locomotives to Minas & Rio Railway (gauge 1000mm) in 1890, and one more in 1894.

The French state-owned sales consortium ''Groupement d´Exportation de Locomotives en Sud-Amérique'' (GELSA) delivered 66 ultra-modern 2-8-4 two-cylinder simple expansion locomotives for the {{RailGauge|1000mm|al=on|allk=on}} Brazilian Railways in 1951 and 1952. They were built by ''Société Francaise de Construction Mécaniques'' (Cail), ''Société des Forges et Ateliers de Creusot'' ([[Schneider Electric|Schneider]] of [[Le Creusot]]) and ''Compagnie de Fives-Lille''. All were delivered to Brazil by the end of 1952.

Designed under the direction of engineer [[André Chapelon]], this class demonstrated that large and powerful steam locomotives could run in general use on light rails of {{convert|22|kg/m|lb/yd|0|abbr=off}} with low speed limits. Their maximum axle load had been reduced to 10 tons, all were fitted with double [[Kylchap]] exhaust systems and their leading and trailing trucks had Athermos axle boxes. Three tender types could be coupled to them, one heavy and two light, for work in different areas. 
* The heavy tender had six-wheel bogies, a coal capacity of 12 tons and a water capacity of {{convert|17800|L|abbr=off}}.
* The light coal tender had four-wheel bogies, a coal capacity of 7 tons and a water capacity of {{convert|6900|L|abbr=off}}.
* The light wood tender had four-wheel bogies, a firewood capacity of {{convert|7|m3|ft3|abbr=off}} and a water capacity of {{convert|6400|L|abbr=off}}.

These modern locomotives were regarded with suspicion by some enginemen who were used to obsolete British locomotives which were often over forty years old. In addition, diesel locomotive salesmen claimed that steam traction was obsolete. This attitude spread to middle management staff, with the result that these modern French steam locomotives were replaced in the 1960s, when they were hardly run in. Some of those locomotives which worked in [[Southern Region, Brazil|Southern Brazil]] were leased to the Bolivian Railways in the 1960s. By 2004, some still existed as wrecks in a locomotive dump near [[Santa Cruz de la Sierra|Santa Cruz]] in [[Bolivia]].