4-6-0

4-6-0 (ten-wheeler)

Front of locomotive at left

Prussian P 8, the most numerous 2'C 4-6-0 in the world

Equivalent classifications UIC class 2'C French class 230 Turkish class 35 Swiss class 3/5 Russian class 2-3-0

First known tank engine version First use 1880 Country Colony of Natal Locomotive NGR Class G Railway Natal Government Railways Designer Kitson and Company Builder Kitson and Company Evolved from 2-6-0T

First known tender engine version First use 1847 Country United States Locomotive Chesapeake Railway Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Designer Septimus Norris Builder Norris Locomotive Works Evolved from 4-4-0 Evolved to 4-6-2 and 2-8-0 Benefits Larger and more powerful than the 4-4-0 Drawbacks Small firebox

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 bogie and six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles with the absence of trailing wheels.

In the mid-19th century, this wheel arrangement became the second-most-popular configuration for new steam locomotives in the United States, where this type is commonly referred to as a ten-wheeler.^[1] As locomotives pulling trains of lightweight all-wood passenger cars from the 1890 to the 1920s, they were exceptionally stable at near 100 mph (160 km/h) speeds on the New York Central's New York-to-Chicago Water Level Route and on the Reading Railroad's line from Camden to Atlantic City, New Jersey.