- 4-6-4-4
In
Whyte notation , a 4-6-4-4 is arailroad steam locomotive that has fourleading wheel s followed by six coupleddriving wheel s, a second set of four driving wheels and fourtrailing wheel s.Other equivalent classifications are:
UIC classification : 2CB2 (also known asGerman classification andItalian classification )French classification : 2322Turkish classification : 3524Swiss classification : 3/5+2/4The sole example of this arrangement was the
PRR Q1 . This locomotive was essentially a prototype in the development of the PRR Q2, a4-4-6-4 .
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