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| Bernd:
John, I believe you guys use just one side of a locomotives wheel arangement or axle to describe the number of wheels, were as in the US it is the number of wheels on one axle. The classifacton system used in the US is called the Whyte's Classifaction. So a wheel arrangemenr such as o o O O O O o would be 4-8-2 called a Mountain. So two axles for the pony wheels thus 4, four axles for the drivers, thus 8 and one axle for the trailing truck, thus 2 or a 4-8-2 Mountain. Were that names came from I'm not sure. It also depended on what part in the US they ran in as to what the called them. Bernd |
| bogstandard:
No, we use the full numbers for the wheel count, that is if they have enough fingers to count that far. Well my confusion was cured, it is now back again :bang: :bang: :bang:. John |
| Bernd:
John, Since we're not building anything of importance why don't we just drop the subject. It seems to be hurting your one brain cell that you claim you have left. I don't want to be blamed for totally wiping out that last cell. :lol: Regards, Bernd |
| John Hill:
--- Quote from: Bernd on May 22, 2009, 01:07:38 PM ---John, I believe you guys use just one side of a locomotives wheel arangement or axle to describe the number of wheels, were as in the US it is the number of wheels on one axle. The classifacton system used in the US is called the Whyte's Classifaction. So a wheel arrangemenr such as o o O O O O o would be 4-8-2 called a Mountain. So two axles for the pony wheels thus 4, four axles for the drivers, thus 8 and one axle for the trailing truck, thus 2 or a 4-8-2 Mountain. Were that names came from I'm not sure. It also depended on what part in the US they ran in as to what the called them. Bernd --- End quote --- Pony wheels? We dont use horses to pull trains, not since about 1830. :lol: |
| Bernd:
Ok John let me rephrase that then. "The lead trucks." How's that? I got rid of the horses. :lol: Bernd |
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