4-6-2
Sign in to saveAlso known as 2C1, 231, 3/6, Pacific
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, ' 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. The locomotive became almost globally known as a Pacific' type after a locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia was shipped across the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand.
Key facts
- Steam wheel arrangement.name
- 4-6-2 (Pacific)
- Steam wheel arrangement.image
- WheelArrangement 4-6-2.svg
- Steam wheel arrangement.alt
- Diagram of two small leading wheels, three large driving wheels joined with a coupling rod, and a single small trailing wheel
- Steam wheel arrangement.caption
- Front of locomotive at left
- Steam wheel arrangement.image2
- Cassier's magazine (1904) (14765892711).jpg
- Steam wheel arrangement.caption2
- New Zealand's Q class, the first true Pacific locomotive
- Steam wheel arrangement.UIC/Germany/Italy
- 2C1 (refined to 2′C′1′ or 2′C1′)
- Steam wheel arrangement.French/Spanish
- 231
- Steam wheel arrangement.Turkish
- 36
- Steam wheel arrangement.Swiss
- 3/6
- Steam wheel arrangement.Russian
- 2-3-1
- Steam wheel arrangement.date
- 1896
- Steam wheel arrangement.country
- Australia
- Steam wheel arrangement.locomotive
- Q class
- Steam wheel arrangement.railway
- Western Australian Government Railways
- Steam wheel arrangement.date2
- 1887
- Steam wheel arrangement.country2
- United States of America
- Steam wheel arrangement.railway2
- Lehigh Valley Railroad
via Wikipedia infobox
~92 min read
Encyclopedic overview
59 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Development
- Origin of the name
- Global popularity
- Tank locomotives
- Lifespan
- Usage
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Burma
- Canada
- China
- Czechoslovakia
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- India
- Broad gauge
- Narrow gauge
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Italy
- Japan
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia/Soviet Union
- South Africa
- Cape gauge
- Natal Government Railways
- Cape Government Railways
- Central South African Railways
- South African Railways
- Narrow gauge
- Spain
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Standard gauge
- Metre gauge
- United Kingdom
- Tender locomotives
- Tank locomotives
- United States
- References
- External links
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, ' 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. The locomotive became almost globally known as a Pacific' type after a locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia was shipped across the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand.
==Overview== The introduction to New Zealand of the design in 1901 has been described as "a veritable milestone in locomotive progress". On many railways worldwide, Pacific steam locomotives provided the motive power for express passenger trains throughout much of the early to mid-20th century, before either being superseded by larger types in the late 1940s and 1950s, or replaced by electric or diesel-electric locomotives during the 1950s and 1960s. Nevertheless, new Pacific designs continued to be built until the mid-1950s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “4-6-2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.