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0-10-0
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In the
Whyte notation for the classification of
steam locomotive wheel arrangement, an
0-10-0 is a locomotive with ten
driving wheels (five axles) and neither leading nor trailing wheels. Because of that lack, it is not stable at speed and is a type confined to fairly low-speed work, such as
switching, transfer runs, slow-speed drag freight, or running over mountainous terrain.
The equivalent
UIC classification is
E.
United States
The 0-10-0 was not very popular in the US and North America in general; probably less than fifty of this type were constructed. For switching work, large
0-8-0s were preferred, and if more than four driven axles were needed, the preference was for
articulated locomotives, such as
0-6-6-0s and
0-8-8-0s. Out on the main line, a
2-10-0, with the added stability of its leading truck, or a
2-10-2 or
2-10-4 with room for larger fireboxes, were preferred.
The first 0-10-0 in the United States was delivered in
1891 to the
St. Clair Tunnel Company to haul trains between
Sarnia, Ontario and
Port Huron, Michigan. Next were a series of 21 locomotives for the
New York Central Railroad and its subsidiaries for hump yard work. Others included seven owned by the
Illinois Central, three by the
Canadian Pacific Railway, fifteen by the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, two by the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and four, the heaviest built, for the
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range.
United Kingdom
Two 0-10-0s saw service on British railways; a suburban
tank locomotive prototype built by the
Great Eastern Railway in
1902, and a
tender locomotive,
MR 0-10-0 Lickey Banker|No. 2290, built by the
Midland Railway in
1919 specifically as a
banker for the
Lickey Incline.
Germany
The 0-10-0 type proved quite popular in Germany. Several types of freight tender locomotives of this arrangement were built between approximately
1905–
1915 after which it was abandoned in favor of the
2-10-0. Subsequent German locomotives of this type were
tank locomotives, including classes
BR82,
BR87,
BR940,
BR941,
BR94-2-4,
BR94-5-17,
BR94-19-21 and
BR94-2-4,
BR94-5-17,
BR94-19-21 and
BR975.
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