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0-8-4

0-8-4 noun: under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has eight coupled driving wheels followed by four trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.

0-8-4: under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has eight coupled driving wheels followed by four...
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Noun

0-8-4 (plural 0-8-4s)

  1. Under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has eight coupled driving wheels followed by four trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
    • The 0-8-4 with its 13 six-wheel coaches generally managed to keep "neck-and-neck" with the Tredegar 0-6-0 and its load of five or six coaches, but the combined effort made the welkin ring and excitement reigned among both the train-crews and passengers.1953 April, J. M. Dunn, “Memories of the L.N.W.R. 0-8-4 Tank Engines”, in Railway Magazine, page 237

Forms of 0-8-4

plural0-8-4s

Questions about 0-8-4

What does 0-8-4 mean?
0-8-4 means under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has eight coupled driving wheels followed by four trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
What part of speech is 0-8-4?
0-8-4 is a noun.
What is the plural of 0-8-4?
The plural of 0-8-4 is 0-8-4s.

Words near 0-8-4 in the dictionary

  1. 0-60s
  2. 0-8-0
  3. 0-8-0s
  4. 0-8-2
  5. 0-8-2s
  6. 0-8-4
  7. 0-8-4s
  8. 0-8-8-0
  9. 0-8-8-0s
  10. 0-dark-hundred
  11. 0-dark-thirty

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