0-8-6T

July 2025Locomotive wheel arrangement An 0-8-6, in the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, http://www.railway-technical.com/whlarr.shtml Wheel Arrangements Railway Technical Web Pages 1 August 2011 1 August 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190511/http://www.railway-technical.com/whlarr.shtml 2016-03-04 is a locomotive with no leading wheels, eight driving wheels (4 axles) fixed in a rigid frame, and six trailing wheels (normally mounted in a trailing truck). All locomotives using this wheel arrangement were tank locomotives. Examples of this type of locomotive were built by Wilhelm von Engerth. Equivalent classification Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: D3 (also known as German classification and Italian classification) French classification: 043 References 8,0-8-6