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1 lip 2024 · Whenever you see a steam locomotive with the same number or fewer of large diameter drive axles than pilot and trailing axles, like this Southern Ry. 4-6-2 Pacific, you’re likely looking at a passenger locomotive, designed for speed over power.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 4-6-2 locomotives. Locomotives classified 4-6-2 under the Whyte notation of locomotive axle arrangements. The equivalent UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements is 2C1 or 2'C1'. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
There were two classes of 4-6-2 locomotives designed and built under Government auspices; one, the generally called "light", more correctly 4-6-2A, with 55,000 lbs weight per driving axle, and "heavy", 4-6-2B, with 60,000 lbs per driving axle. In common with all USRA road designs, these locomotives had many progressive features. For one thing ...
Locomotives with 4 leading wheels, 6 driving wheels and 2 trailing wheels knowns as "Pacific" type locomotives. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
31 gru 2022 · Pacific 4–6–2. 4–6–2 design introduced 1901 in New Zealand, Pacific steam locomotives provided motive power for express passenger trains early to mid-20th century, Superseded by larger ...
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 4-6-2+2-6-4 is a Garratt or Union Garratt articulated locomotive using a pair of 4-6-2 engine units back to back, with the boiler and cab suspended between them.
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-6-2 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.
