0-6-0 is the Whyte notation designation for steam locomotives with a wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles, and no trailing wheels. Historically, this was the most common wheel arrangement used on both tender and tank locomotives in versions with both inside and outside cylinders .

The USRA 0-6-0 was a USRA standard class of steam locomotive designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I.

Jul 5, 2006 · The 0-6-0 began life as a road engine in the late 1830s but was built only in limited numbers. Like the 0-4-0, the 0-6-0 could not easily traverse the poor track of the day, and within twenty years was rendered obsolete by the introduction of the 2-6-0 and 4-6-0.

Railroads that used 0-6-0 "Switcher" Locomotives in the USA (data provided by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media)

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-6-0+0-6-0 represents the wheel arrangement of an articulated locomotive with two separate swivelling engine units, each unit with no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no …

The H.K. Porter 0-6-0ST is a series of 0-6-0 saddle tank steam locomotives that were designed and mass produced by the H.K. Porter Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Several models of locomotives produced by H.K. Porter utilized this 0-6-0ST design.

Philadelphia & Reading 0-6-0 "Switcher" Locomotives in the USA. Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media. Class Philadelphia (Locobase 2547) Rebuilt from the Richmond, which blew up 19 days after it entered service on the Reading in September 1844. The incident, blamed by one authority on a lightning strike, was later more plausibly ...

Class 12/1906 (Locobase 16246) Data from NYC 7 - 1926 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange.

Here now is a compilation of one of the most useful and valuable marshaling/shunting engines in all of the United States: the 0-6-0. Useful as a tender engi...

Nov 25, 2023 · WOODSTOWN, N.J. — SMS Rail Lines Alco 0-6-0 locomotive No. 9 has been certified for operation by the Federal Railroad Administration after a 14-year restoration at the SMS shops in Bridgeport, N.J.