Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Under the Whyte notation a 2-8-8-4 is a steam locomotive with two leading wheels, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a four-wheel trailing truck.Other equivalent classifications are:UIC classification: 1DD2 (also known as German classification and Italian classification)French classification: 140+042Turkish classification: 45+46Swiss classification: 4/5+4/6Russian classification: 1-4-0+0-4-2The equivalent UIC classification is, refined for Mallet locomotives, (1′D)D2′.Such a long locomotive must be an articulated locomotive, and all the examples produced were Mallets, with a joint in the frame between the first and second groups of driving wheels. The superstructure of the locomotive was attached to the rearmost set and the forward set and leading truck could swing laterally on curves.The type was generally named the Yellowstone, a name given it by the first owner, the Northern Pacific Railway, whose lines run near Yellowstone National Park. Seventy-two Yellowstone type locomotives were built for four different US railroads.The 2-8-8-4 was a common arrangement for the largest steam locomotives. All Yellowstones had fairly small drivers of 63 to 64 inches (1.60 to 1.63 m). For greater speeds, the Union Pacific Railroad chose a four-wheel leading truck and 68 inches (1.73 m) drivers for its Big Boy 4-8-8-4 class.Several classes of Yellowstone, especially the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range's locomotives, are among the largest steam locomotives, with the exact ranking depending on the criteria used.. }
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- 2-8-8-4 abstract "Under the Whyte notation a 2-8-8-4 is a steam locomotive with two leading wheels, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a four-wheel trailing truck.Other equivalent classifications are:UIC classification: 1DD2 (also known as German classification and Italian classification)French classification: 140+042Turkish classification: 45+46Swiss classification: 4/5+4/6Russian classification: 1-4-0+0-4-2The equivalent UIC classification is, refined for Mallet locomotives, (1′D)D2′.Such a long locomotive must be an articulated locomotive, and all the examples produced were Mallets, with a joint in the frame between the first and second groups of driving wheels. The superstructure of the locomotive was attached to the rearmost set and the forward set and leading truck could swing laterally on curves.The type was generally named the Yellowstone, a name given it by the first owner, the Northern Pacific Railway, whose lines run near Yellowstone National Park. Seventy-two Yellowstone type locomotives were built for four different US railroads.The 2-8-8-4 was a common arrangement for the largest steam locomotives. All Yellowstones had fairly small drivers of 63 to 64 inches (1.60 to 1.63 m). For greater speeds, the Union Pacific Railroad chose a four-wheel leading truck and 68 inches (1.73 m) drivers for its Big Boy 4-8-8-4 class.Several classes of Yellowstone, especially the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range's locomotives, are among the largest steam locomotives, with the exact ranking depending on the criteria used.".