0-10-0

0-10-0 (Ten-coupled)

Builder's photo of a Prussian G 10 in 1916

Equivalent classifications UIC class E French class 050 Turkish class 55 Swiss class 5/5 Russian class 0-5-0

First known tank engine version First use 1868 Country United States of America Locomotive Reuben Wells Railway Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Designer Reuben Wells Benefits Total locomotive mass as adhesive weight Drawbacks Instability at speed

First known tender engine version First use 1899 Country Austria Locomotive 180.00 class Railway Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways Designer Karl Gölsdorf Drawbacks Instability at speed

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-10-0 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 as a Decapod, a name which is applied to 2-10-0 types in the United States.^[1] In the United States, the type is known as ten-coupled.