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{{Short description|Locomotive wheel arrangement}} {{Infobox steam wheel arrangement | name = 2-10-2 (Santa Fe) | image = WheelArrangement 2-10-2.svg | alt = Diagram of one small leading wheel, five large driving wheels joined together with a coupling rod, and one small trailing wheel | caption = | image2 = 2-10-2 tandem compound locomotive, Santa Fe (Howden, Boys' Book of Locomotives, 1907).jpg | alt2 = | caption2 = ATSF tandem compound 2-10-2 <!--Equivalent classifications--> | hatnote = | UIC/Germany/Italy= 1E1, 1β²E1β² | French/Spanish = 151 | Turkish = 57 | Swiss = 5/7 | Russian = 1-5-1 <!--First known tank engine version--> | date = 1922 | country = Germany | locomotive = [[Prussian T 20]] | railway = [[Deutsche Reichsbahn]] | designer = [[Prussian state railways]] | builder = [[Borsig]] & [[Hanomag]] | evolvedfrom = | evolvedto = | mainbenefit = | maindrawback = <!--First known tender engine version--> | date2 = 1903 | country2 = United States | locomotive2 = AT&SF 900 class | railway2 = [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe]] | designer2 = | builder2 = Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe | evolvedfrom2 = [[2-10-0]], [[2-8-2]] | evolvedto2 = [[2-10-4]] | mainbenefit2 = Deeper firebox and better steaming than the [[2-10-0]] | maindrawback2 = Nosing action at speed <!--First known "True type" version--> | date3 = 1919 | country3 = United States | locomotive3 = AT&SF 3800 class | railway3 = Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe | designer3 = | builder3 = Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe | evolvedfrom3 = | evolvedto3 = [[2-10-4]] | mainbenefit3 = Larger and deeper firebox | maindrawback3 = Nosing action at speed }} Under the [[Whyte notation]] for the classification of [[steam locomotive]]s, '''{{nowrap|2-10-2}}''' represents the [[wheel arrangement]] of two [[leading wheel]]s, ten powered and coupled [[driving wheel]]s, and two [[trailing wheel]]s. In the United States and elsewhere the {{nowrap|2-10-2}} is known as the '''Santa Fe''' type, after the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] that first used the type in 1903.
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