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Mikado is the usual in Europe old North American term for steam locomotives of the wheel arrangement 1'D1 '. This means that the locomotives have a pusher axle, eight powered wheels and a trailing axle. In this design, freight locomotives were mainly built, but also express and passenger locomotives for use in the hills and mountains.

End of the 19th century, the first successful Mikado were built in the U.S. and exported. Since 1897 one built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works locomotive was supplied to Japan. After a good dozen American and Japanese machine designs were successful. In this development, the name Mikado (Japanese for " sublime gate", former name of the Japanese Emperor ) should be justified.

Only in 1914 were the first Mikado in Europe for the Austrian kk State Railways ( KkStB ) built as a series of 470. One of the most economical and most efficient Mikado types was built in large numbers from 1932 for the Polish PKP series Pt31.

Early types in Germany were the Saxon XX HV and the Prussian P 10 At Deutsche Reichsbahn were the 19 series, 39 series and 41 series called Mikado. Most loco built of these is the series with 41 366 copies.