2-6-2 2-6-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, is an articulated locomotive using a pair of power units back to back, with the boiler and cab suspended between them. The 2-6-2 wheel arrangement has a single pair of leading wheels in a leading truck, followed by three coupled pairs of driving wheels and a pair of trailing wheels in a trailing truck. Since the type was often called the Prairie type, the corresponding Garratt and Modified Fairlie types were usually known as a Double Prairie. Overview The wheel arrangement was used on Garratt, Modified Fairlie and Union Garratt locomotives. Garratt locomotives The was the second most numerous Garratt wheel arrangement to be built, with altogether 238 examples constructed by Beyer, Peacock and Company (BP) and its licensees. Most of them were built to , and the or narrow gauges. None were built to the , but several were built to and gauges. The first examples of the type wer ...
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