wheel arrangement

English

Noun

wheel arrangement (plural wheel arrangements)

  1. (rail transport) A system of classifying the way the driving wheels and non-driving wheels are distributed under a locomotive.
    • 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 42 (photo caption):
      Milwaukee Road revived the 4-4-2 type and gave the wheel arrangement its finest hour in 1935 when 7-foot-drivered oil-burners pioneered the Hiawatha.
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