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John Hill:

Bernd, as far as I know the practice in NZ has been to count all the wheels and we used the North American(?) designations too so our very numerous all purpose loco was the 'Ab'  Pacific type with wheel designation of 4-6-2.  Something I have never found is a 4-4-4 loco, curious eh?

Now then Bernd, I thought you American chappies called the front bit with four wheels the "pilot truck". :coffee:

(I am going down stairs to play now,  it is blowing a gale with 12 metre swells coming into the bay and 120kmph winds trying to batter the lounge windows in.  Downstairs is concrete block and I wont hear a thing down there!!)

HS93:
while we are talking trains found this site , it has some strange turbine trains and some very strange boilers

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

    :ddb: Peter  :ddb:

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