4-8-4

English thumb|Canadian National 6213 thumb|Schematic of the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement Noun en Q627503 Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, eight coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels in a trailing truck. en Northern<id:Q627503> Northern Pacific ; more at a list of many others en 1954-01 H. P. White Vignettes of the Rail Railway Magazine 54, at Harmon station, New York No sooner had a waiting locomotive backed on to its train, the vociferous 4-6-4 or 4-8-4 re-emerged from under the bridge, and the two red marker lights on the last vehicles passed, than the headlight of the electric engine hauling the following train could be seen under the bridge and the waiting queue of locomotives had moved up one. Further reading en Rail transportation