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Diesel Wheel Arrangements
Posted by gottcent on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 5:32 PM

I understand the meaning of the numerical codes used to identify different wheel arrangements on steam locomotives: 0-4-0, 4-6-4, etc. But I do not understand the corresponding alphabetic codes used for diesel wheel arrangements. I see designations such as AA or CC but I have no idea what they mean. Can anyone help?

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Posted by rtraincollector on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 6:44 PM

This may help you http://sdrm.info/roster/diesel/wheels.html 

Great question

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Posted by lionelsoni on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 6:51 PM

Take a look at this:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_arrangement

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Posted by rtraincollector on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:11 PM

heres another on just diesel which asked for 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAR_wheel_arrangement 

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Posted by gottcent on Friday, June 24, 2016 8:35 AM

Thanks, folks. This information was helpful.

John

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