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ruzuzu commented on the word Whyte notation
"The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte and came into use in the early twentieth century, encouraged by an editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal (December 1900). The notation counts the number of leading wheels, then the number of driving wheels, and finally the number of trailing wheels, groups of numbers being separated by dashes. Other classification schemes, like UIC classification and the French, Turkish and Swiss systems for steam locomotives, count axles rather than wheels." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whyte_notation&oldid=594630027
March 18, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word Whyte notation
(See, e.g., 4-6-6-4.)
March 18, 2014