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4-6-2 en · NOUN

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1. Under the Whyte notation system, the wheel arrangement of a steam locomotive that has four coupled leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels, and a pair of trailing wheels; a locomotive with this arrangement.
   • Therefore, the new standard design in fact has materialised as a 4-6-2 with two 20 in. cylinders and a boiler pressure of 250 lb. per sq. in. 1951 April 14, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 272:

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