2-4-2

English thumb Noun Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has two leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, four coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels in a trailing truck. en 2005 Jim Harter World Railways of the Nineteenth Century: A Pictorial History in Victorian Engravings 76 In 1889 a severe passenger train wreck occurred near Dijon, when a 2-4-2 engine derailed while going full speed downhill. en 2003 Robert H. Schleicher Modern Lionel Trains 48 Lionel's first tinplate reproduction of a standard Gauge locomotive was a black 2-4-2 steam engine with three red passenger cars. en 1962 Geoffrey Freeman Allen Trains Illustrated Annual 25 Returning in the works staff train to Kingsbridge behind 2-4-2 tank No. 41, we proceeded to Broadstone, former headquarters of the M.G.W.R. en 1952 Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis The Beauty of Old Trains 117 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. See also Anagrams en 224 2-2-4 224 4-2-2 en Rail transportation