2-8-8-0

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In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 2-8-8-0 is a locomotive with a two-wheel leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and no trailing truck.

Other equivalent classifications are:
UIC classification: 1DD (also known as German classification and Italian classification)
French classification: 140+040
Turkish classification: 45+44
Swiss classification: 4/5+4/4

The UIC classification is refined to (1'D)D for Mallet locomotives.

The Great Northern Railway owned some of these; and it was called the "Bull Moose" type.

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