Tags: Locomotive.
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.
