2-8-8-2

English

Noun

2-8-8-2 (plural 2-8-8-2s)

  1. Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and two trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
    • 1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:
      The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, […] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
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