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4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler" Locomotives in the USA. The 4-6-0 wheel arrangement was a natural progression from the 4-4-0 (American type) when railroads desired a locomotive with more power. The first example was built in 1847 by the Norris Brothers for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
- Railroads That Used 4-6-0 Locomotives in Other Countries
4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler; 4-6-2 Pacific; 4-6-4 Hudson; 4-6-6; 8...
- Railroads That Used 4-6-0 Locomotives in Other Countries
Although the Baltimore and Ohio had procured a locomotive with a 4-8-0 wheel arrangement in 1855 with the “Centipede”, the Central Pacific “Mastodon” was one of the first successful locomotives with this wheel arrangement. Completed in 1882, it was the heaviest locomotive in the world at the time.
4-6-0 TEN-WHEELER. A 4-6-0 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, has four leading wheels on two axles in a leading truck and six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles with the absence of trailing wheels.
These two Ten-wheelers entered service in San Francisco & North Pacific #21 and California Northwestern #32. The latter later acquired as SF&NP #25. Once they operated under NWP's herald, they ran until 1934.
The privately owned Wellington and Manawatu Railway purchased two Ten-Wheelers from Baldwin in 1904. In 1908 they were acquired by the Government and became the Ud Class. They were also a victim of standardisation and were scrapped when repairs were required - the last being written off in 1931.
24 Οκτ 2024 · The Ten-wheeler is perhaps the only design to derive its name simply from the number of wheels it carries (ten) with a 4-6-0 arrangement. The 4-6-0 was developed as early as the late 1840s first appearing on the Philadelphia & Reading.
The 4-6-0 ("Ten Wheeler") steam locomotive first appeared in "tender" form in the United States in 1947, this being the 'Chesapeake' designed by one Septimus Norris and constructed by Norris locomotive Works for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
