4-6-4-4

Duplex locomotive wheel arrangement

In Whyte notation, a 4-6-4-4 is a railroad steam locomotive that has four leading wheels followed by six coupled driving wheels, a second set of four driving wheels and four trailing wheels.

Other equivalent classifications are:
UIC classification: 2CB2 (also known as German classification and Italian classification)
French classification: 2322
Turkish classification: 3524
Swiss classification: 3/5+2/4 up to the early 1920s, later 5/9

The sole example of this arrangement was the PRR Q1. This locomotive was essentially a prototype in the development of the PRR Q2, a 4-4-6-4.

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Steam locomotive wheel arrangements (Whyte notation)
Single engine typesDivided drive and
Duplex engine typesArticulated locomotives
Fairlie, Meyer
and Garratt typesArticulated locomotives
Mallet typesArticulated locomotives
Triplex and other Multiplex typesArticulated locomotives
Engerth typesGeared locomotives


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