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That is the Whyte system. The Whyte System of steam locomotive idenification by wheel arrangement evolved as the standard of North American railroading. Developed in 1900 by Fredirick Whyte, a New York Central mechanical engineer, and subseqeuntly adopted by the cheif mech. engineers of the time, the system endured through the steam era and is still used today. <br /> The Whyte System uses numerals divided by hyphens to represent the number of wheels(on both sides) in each grouping, starting at the front end with the leading truck, progressing through the drivers(or groups of drivers), and finishing with the trailing truck: 0-4-0, 2-6-0, 4-6-2, 2-6-6-2, and so on. <br />I hope I helped![:D]
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