0-4-6T

{{More citations needed|date=August 2025}}{{Short description|Engerth locomotive wheel arrangement}} An '''0-4-6T''', in the [[Whyte notation]] for the classification of [[steam locomotive]]s by [[wheel arrangement]], is a locomotive with no [[leading wheel]]s, four [[driving wheel]]s fixed in a rigid frame, and six [[trailing wheel]]s (normally mounted in a [[trailing truck]]). Examples of this type of locomotive were built by [[Engerth locomotive|Wilhelm von Engerth]].

==Equivalent classifications== Other equivalent classifications are: *[[UIC classification]]: '''B3''' (also known as German classification and [[Italian classification]]) *[[French classification]]: '''023'''

[[File:VSB-Eb-2-5Nr25.jpg|thumb|[[Engerth locomotive]] "Spluegen" Number 25 of the VSB at Zürich]]

==History== This wheel arrangement was used on [[Engerth locomotive|Engerth]] [[articulated locomotive|articulated]] [[steam locomotive]]s, widely used on Alpine railways. One early example was ''Genf'' built by [[Maschinenfabrik Esslingen]] in 1858 for the Swiss Central Railway.<ref>[[Hamilton Ellis]], ''The pictorial history of railways,'' Hamlyn, 1968, p.57.</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:0-4-6 locomotives| ]] [[Category:Whyte notation|4,0-4-6T]] {{not a typo|[[Category:B3′ locomotives| ]]}}