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4-8-0
4-8-0
English
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Noun
4-8-0 (plural 4-8-0s)
- Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels on a leading truck followed by four sets of coupled driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
Hypernyms
See also
- twelve-wheeler