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0-4-2s

0-4-2s is the plural of 0-4-2.

Meaning of 0-4-2

Noun

0-4-2 (plural 0-4-2s)

  1. Under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has four coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
    • The 2-4-2 tank engines of the Great Eastern and the London and North Western were simply adaptations of 2-4-0 main-line engines; the 0-4-4 tank engine owed its parentage to the archaic 0-4-2 mixed traffic.1952, Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, The Beauty of Old Trains, page 117

Questions about 0-4-2s

What is 0-4-2s the plural of?
0-4-2s is the plural of 0-4-2.

Words near 0-4-2s in the dictionary

  1. 0-4-0
  2. 0-4-0+0-4-0
  3. 0-4-0+0-4-0s
  4. 0-4-0s
  5. 0-4-2
  6. 0-4-2s
  7. 0-4-4
  8. 0-4-4-0
  9. 0-4-4-0s
  10. 0-4-4-2
  11. 0-4-4-2s

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