2-8-2
Sign in to saveAlso known as 1D1, 141, 4/6, Mikado, Mike, MacArthur, 1′D1′
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, ' represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck. This configuration of steam locomotive is most often referred to as a Mikado, frequently shortened to Mike'.
Key facts
- Steam wheel arrangement.name
- 2-8-2 (Mikado)
- Steam wheel arrangement.image
- WheelArrangement 2-8-2.svg
- Steam wheel arrangement.alt
- Diagram of one small leading wheel, four large driving wheels joined by a coupling rod, and one small trailing wheel
- Steam wheel arrangement.image2
- NKP 639.jpg
- Steam wheel arrangement.caption2
- USRA Light Mikado No. 639 from the Nickel Plate Road
- Steam wheel arrangement.UIC/Germany/Italy
- 1D1, 1'D1'
- Steam wheel arrangement.French/Spanish
- 141
- Steam wheel arrangement.Turkish
- 46
- Steam wheel arrangement.Swiss
- 4/6
- Steam wheel arrangement.Russian
- 1-4-1
- Steam wheel arrangement.date
- 1884
- Steam wheel arrangement.country
- Australia
- Steam wheel arrangement.locomotive
- 8D15 class
- Steam wheel arrangement.railway
- Queensland Railways
- Steam wheel arrangement.builder
- Dübs & Co.
- Steam wheel arrangement.evolvedfrom
- 2-8-0
- Steam wheel arrangement.evolvedto
- 2-8-4
- Steam wheel arrangement.mainbenefit
- Larger coal bunker.
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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, ' represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck. This configuration of steam locomotive is most often referred to as a Mikado, frequently shortened to Mike.
It was also at times referred to on some railroads in the United States as the McAdoo Mikado and, during World War II, the MacArthur.
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