Under the
Whyte notation
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for the classification of
steam locomotive
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s, 2-10-0 represents the
wheel arrangement
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of two
leading wheel
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s on one axle, ten powered and coupled
driving wheel
On a steam locomotive, a driving wheel is a powered wheel which is driven by the locomotive's pistons (or turbine, in the case of a steam turbine locomotive). On a conventional, non-articulated locomotive, the driving wheels are all coupled ...
s on five axles, and no
trailing wheel
On a steam locomotive, a trailing wheel or trailing axle is generally an unpowered wheel or axle ( wheelset) located behind the driving wheels. The axle of the trailing wheels is usually located in a trailing truck. On some large locomotives, ...
s. This arrangement was often named Decapod, especially in the
United States
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, although this name was sometimes applied to locomotives of
0-10-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles and no trailing wheels. In the United Kingdom, this type is known ...
"Ten-Coupled" arrangement, particularly in the
United Kingdom
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. Notable German locomotives of this type include the war locomotives of
Class 52.
These locomotives were popular in
Europe
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, particularly in
Germany
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and
Russia
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;
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use of the type was confined to the period during and after
World War II
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. In the
United States
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, the 2-10-0 was not widely popular but was a favorite of a small number of railroads which operated mostly in mountainous terrain. Among these was the
Erie Railroad
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, a major Chicago to New York trunk line railroad, and the
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named ...
, whose heavily graded routes crossed the Allegheny Mountains.
The 2-10-0's main advantage was that five out of six of its axles were powered, meaning almost all the
weight was available for traction rather than being distributed over pilot and trailing wheels. The long rigid
wheelbase
In both road and rail vehicles, the wheelbase is the horizontal distance between the centers of the front and rear wheels. For road vehicles with more than two axles (e.g. some trucks), the wheelbase is the distance between the steering (front ...
caused problems on tightly curved track, so
blind drivers were the norm, either on the central axle, and/or on the second and/or fourth axles. Often
lateral motion device
A lateral motion device is a mechanism used in some railroad locomotives which permits the axles to move sideways relative to the frame. The device facilitates cornering.
Purpose
Prior to the introduction of the lateral motion device, the coupled ...
s were attached to the leading drive axle.
The wheel arrangement's disadvantages included the
firebox
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size restriction caused by the lack of trailing wheel. This meant the firebox was fitted in between the wheels (common on earlier locomotives) and was long and narrow, or if mounted above the driving wheels, was wide and long but shallow. Many locomotives chose the latter option. A firebox mounted over the drivers also restricted the diameter of the driving wheels, which in turn limited speed. As with the Consolidation (2-8-0), "chopping" at speed ensured a rough ride for the crew due to instability caused by the wheel arrangement. In fact, backing any locomotive without a trailing axle was restricted to under twenty miles per hour or less. Most 2-10-0s were not operated at speeds greater than 50 mph (80 km/h).
The type operated as freight engine, although locomotives in
Germany
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and the
United Kingdom
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proved capable of hauling
passenger train
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s.
United States
![Pennsylvania Railroad Steam Locomotive -4483 (1)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Pennsylvania_Railroad_Steam_Locomotive_-4483_%281%29.jpg)
The first Decapods were built for the
Lehigh Valley Railroad
The Lehigh Valley Railroad was a railroad built in the Northeastern United States to haul anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Pennsylvania. The railroad was authorized on April 21, 1846 for freight and transportation of passengers, goods, w ...
in the late-1860s. They proved too rough on the track because of their long coupled
wheelbase
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. No more followed for 19 years, until the
Northern Pacific Railway
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bought two for use on the switchbacks over
Stampede Pass
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, while the tunnel was being built. In low-speed service where high tractive effort was critical, these Decapods were successful. Small numbers of other Decapods were built over the next twenty years, mostly for service in steeply
grade
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d mountainous areas where power at low speeds was the requirement. The type did not prove as popular as the successful Consolidation (
2-8-0
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) type. Among Decapod users was the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
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. The engines were
tandem compound
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s but their ongoing reversing limitations became the genesis of the
2-10-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels. In the United States of America and elsewhere the is ...
wheel arrangement.
![Seaboard 544](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Seaboard_544.jpg)
The first boost in the number of Decapods occurred when
Imperial Russia
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ordered approximately 1,200
Decapods
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from American builders during
World War I
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. When the
Bolshevik revolution
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occurred in 1917, 857 had already been delivered, but more than 200 were either awaiting shipment or were in the process of construction. These stranded locomotives were adopted by the
United States Railroad Administration
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(USRA), the body created by the Government to oversee and control the railroads during the War, converted to American standards, and put to use on American railroads. Small and light-footed, these Russian decapods proved popular with smaller railroads, and many of them remained in service long after the USRA's control of the railroads ceased. Many indeed lasted until the end of steam on those railroads.
![544boilergap](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/544boilergap.jpg)
Swengel suggested the 2-10-0 arrangement was 'obsolete' by 1916, when the Pennsylvania Railroad commenced an experiment with a 2-10-0 locomotive at its Juniata plant. Most 10 coupled engines constructed for U.S. railroads during World War I were of the USRA 2-10-2 arrangement, but the PRR committed to 122 of the 2-10-0s. Swengel argued this commitment to the 2-10-0, nicknamed "Deks", was controversial even in 1916 and was more so in 1922 when the PRR placed additional orders. The PRR was soon the biggest user of Decapods in the United States. The type was ideally suited to the Pennsy's heavily graded
Allegheny Mountains
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routes, which required lugging ability according to tractive effort, not speed according to horse power.
The PRR bought 598 2-10-0s including 123 built at its own shops. In one of the largest locomotive orders ever, the rest came from the
Baldwin Locomotive Works
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. The PRR 2-10-0s weighed and developed about of tractive effort with an axle loading of over . The engines steamed at and had a relatively large superheater. The grate area of about was on the small side, but a mechanical stoker partly compensated for this.
The PRR decapod, class
I1s, was unlike the Russian decapod; it was huge, taking advantage of the PRR's heavy trackage and high
axle load
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ing, with a fat, free-steaming boiler that earned the type the nickname of 'Hippos' on the PRR. Two giant cylinders (30½ x 32 inch) gave the I1s power and their tenders permitted hard and long workings between stops. They were unpopular with the crews, for they were hard riding. The last operations on the PRR were 1957.
A small number of other Decapods were ordered by other railroads; the I-2 Decapods built for the
Western Maryland Railway
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The WM beca ...
were the largest ever built, at almost weight, and are a notable exception to the rule of thumb for the comfort of the ride on a 2-10-0 wheel arrangement, crews said the engines cruised smoothly up to 50 mph without becoming a rough ride. (After the running gear was redesigned by the WM) The WM's I-2 are also noted as the strongest Decapods ever built, at 96,315 lbs of tractive effort. (Not to be confused with the 10 Russian Decapods the WM held in their roster, which were standard Russian Decapods aside from heavier steel frames the WM used to replace the original cast iron frames, the new frames also made the WM Russian Decapods 2 inches longer than other Russian Decapods)
Baldwin developed two standard 2-10-0s for railroads with low axle-load requirements.
[King, E.W., Jr. in Drury p. 351]
Thirteen Decapod locomotives survive in the US, including two Baldwin standards, six Russian Decapods and one PRR I1. Two,
Great Western 90
Great Western 90 is a 2-10-0 " Decapod" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Strasburg Rail Road (SRC) outside of Strasburg, Pennsylvania. Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in June 1924, No. 90 originally pulled sugar beet train ...
, a Baldwin Decapod at the
Strasburg Rail Road
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, and
Frisco 1630
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, a Russian Decapod at the
Illinois Railway Museum
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Overview
Histo ...
, are operational. One Decapod survives as a static exhibit at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina (
Seaboard Air Line
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2-10-0 #544).
Preserved Decapods in the United States
*544 is on display at the North Carolina Transportation Museum - Spencer, NC
*1615 is on display at Missile Park in Altus, OK
*1621 is on display at the National
National Museum of Transportation
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- St. Louis, MO
*1625 is on display at the
Museum of the American Railroad
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- Frisco, TX
*
1630
Events
January–March
* January 2 – A shoemaker in Turin is found to have the first case of bubonic plague there as the plague of 1630 begins spreading through Italy.
* January 5 – A team of Portuguese military advisers ...
is operated by the Illinois Railway Museum - Union, IL
*1632 is on display at the Belton Grandview & Kansas City Railroad - Belton, MO
*
90 is operated by Strasburg Railroad - Strasburg, PA
Germany
![Locomotive BR50-3648-8](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Locomotive_BR50-3648-8.jpg)
The 2-10-0 arrangement was a very popular one in Germany. The first were built by the individual state railways from 1915 to 1918, and these later became the
DRG BR58. The DRG then produced a number of standard classes of 2-10-0s: the heavy 3-cylinder
BR44 (1753 built), the two-cylinder version
BR43 (35 built), and the lightweight
BR50 (3164 built). During wartime, the BR44 and BR50 designs were simplified as ÜK (''Übergangs Kriegslokomotiven'', or interim war locomotives). By 1941, it was clear that even these were too complicated, expensive, time-consuming to build, and used too much material in short supply, so new ''
Kriegslokomotive
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'' (war locomotive) designs were developed: the lightweight
BR52 (7794 built) and the intermediate weight
BR42 (859 built).
Postwar locomotives of these types, particularly the BR 52, were spread all over Europe and were taken into service by the railways of many different countries:
* BR44 in France,
SNCF 150X
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.
* BR50 in Belgium,
NMBS/SNCB
french: Société nationale des chemins de fer belgesgerman: Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen
, type = Statutory corporation
, industry = Rail Transport
, foundation = 1926
, founder = Government o ...
class 25; in Denmark,
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class N.
* BR52 in Austria,
ÖBB
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class 52; in Belgium, NMBS/SNCB class 26; in Norway,
NSB Class 63.
United Kingdom
![BR 9F Crosti 2-10-0 at Wellingborough in 1959](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/BR_9F_Crosti_2-10-0_at_Wellingborough_in_1959.jpg)
Locomotives with ten driving wheels were rare in British railway history. In 1913 an initial design for
a four-cylinder 2-10-0 of
tractive effort
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In railway engineering, the term tr ...
was produced by the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
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, but none were built. This had been inspired by 's 2-10-0s working in Belgium and used a similar
tapered boiler, with the
round-topped firebox almost filling the loading gauge. The
first 2-10-0 was built during the Second World War, as a variant of the "Austerity" 2-8-0 for lightly built railways.
The only other 2-10-0 type was the 251-strong
Standard class 9F introduced by
British Railways
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in 1954. The class included
92220 ''Evening Star'', the last steam locomotive built for British Railways, in 1960; and 92203 (named ''Black Prince'' when preserved), which in 1983 set a record for the heaviest steam locomotive-hauled train in Britain when it started a 2,162-ton train at
Foster Yeoman
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History
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quarry in Somerset.
Finland
The
State Railroads of
Finland
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purchased 20 American Decapods after
WWII
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- these were originally built for the Soviet Union, but never delivered to them. Of the 20 engines, 10 were made by
Baldwin, 10 by
Alco
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. Since they were originally built for the USSR, they had the correct gauge for Finland, too ( exactly). One (Alco # 75214, 1947) is preserved at the
Finnish Railway Museum
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The museum is on the original station and yard site of the Hank ...
in
Hyvinkää
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, Finland. The Finnish designation was Tr2.
The locomotive was nicknamed ''Truman'' in Finland. It was used for hauling heavy freight trains.
France
From 1910 to 1951, the French industry built more than 500 decapods for three railway companies (Paris-Orléans, Nord, Est) and for the national railways (
SNCF
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). Moreover, at the end of
World War II
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, SNCF inherited more than 200 units of German decapods built in France, mostly BR 44. The last decapod, a SNCF 150P, was withdrawn in 1968. All 2-10-0s, of French or of German design, proved reliable and powerful in service. One can notice that some engines of the Paris-Orléans company were dedicated to passenger service on difficult mountain lines.
Poland
![POL Karsznice Ty246](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/POL_Karsznice_Ty246.jpg)
Between early 1920s and 1958 Polish industry delivered to
PKP some 1200 decapods of classes , , and . PKP also operated German decapods BR 52 (
Ty2) and
BR 42 (Ty3), as well as American ones (, nicknamed "Trumman"). They were used to work the heaviest goods trains.
Romania
![CFR 150](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/CFR_150.038_romanian_heavy_freight_locomotive_%28DR_50_class%29.jpg)
After the
Second World War
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,
Romania
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built the 150.000 Class, after
DRB Class 50
The DRB Class 50Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn ...
. A total of 282 locomotives were built between 1946 and 1960, at
Malaxa (later ''23 August Works'') in
Bucharest
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, and in
Reşiţa.
Builder details:
* 150.001-150.050 Reşiţa
* 150.051-150.081 Malaxa
* 150.082-150.282 Reşiţa
Soviet Union
![Parovoz-El-629](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Parovoz-El-629.jpg)
2-10-0 were fairly common freight locomotives in the former Soviet Union. They came from several sources: US imports (
class Ye (russian: серия Е), built by ALCO and Baldwin, respectively), German war trophy DRB 52 class locomotives (what became the Soviet TE-series) and locally built. The locally built 2-10-0 locomotives were represented by some TE (built from captured German parts), SO (Sergo Ordjonikidze) and L (Lebedyanski)–series locomotives. The L-series locomotives were one of the more advanced steam locomotives built in the former Soviet Union. They used an automatic stoker to feed coal and had a relatively low axle load (18 tonnes or 40,000 lb) to be compatible with the war-torn railroads of the former Soviet Union. Several examples of these locomotives are still preserved in working order.
There is a 2-10-0 Lebedyanski series locomotive L 4657, marooned in a siding at Port Baikal.
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External links
Illinois Railway Museum's roster page for SLSF 1630 (the operable 2-10-0)
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