4-8-8-2

id: 4-8-8-2-220-371333
title: 4-8-8-2
text: Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-8-8-2 is a locomotive with four leading wheels, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a two-wheel trailing truck. Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: 2DD1 French classification: 240+041 Turkish classification: 46+45 Swiss classification: 4/6+4/5 The equivalent UIC classification is refined to (2'D)D1' for simple articulated locomotives. A locomotive of that length must be an articulated locomotive; me
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description: Articulated locomotive wheel arrangement
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-8-8-2
date created: 2005-04-08T23:56:18Z
date modified: 2024-09-13T12:49:39Z
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