6-8-6

Front of locomotive to the left
The single S2, No. 6200, in a PRR promotional image.

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, 6-8-6 represents the arrangement of six unpowered leading wheels, eight powered and coupled driving wheels, and six unpowered trailing wheels.

Other equivalent classifications are:

The only known example of the 6-8-6 wheel arrangement is the experimental Pennsylvania Railroad S2 steam turbine locomotive.[1]

  1. ^ Staufer & Pennypacker 1962, pp. 240–242