Meanings
noun4-8-2 (plural 4-8-2s)
plural 4-8-2s
- Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, eight coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels in a trailing truck.
Most Canadian engines are black. [...] The C.N.R. has only three classes of non-black engines, the "6400s", the later 4-8-2s and the 4-6-4s.
1959 November 28, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 552
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