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{{Short description|Locomotive wheel arrangement}} [[Image:Crampton Camden and Amboy RR.jpg|thumb|300px|A drawing of a [[Camden and Amboy Railroad|C&A]] 6-2-0, {{circa|1847}}.]] In the [[Whyte notation]], a '''6-2-0''' is a [[railroad]] [[steam locomotive]] that has an unpowered three-axle [[leading truck]] followed by a single powered [[driving axle]]. This [[wheel arrangement]] is associated with the [[Crampton locomotive]] type, and in the USA the single class were sometimes referred to as '''''Cramptons'''''. Other equivalent classifications are:<br /> [[UIC classification]]: '''3A''' (also known as German classification and [[Italian classification]])<br /> [[French classification]]: '''310'''<br /> [[Turkish classification]]: '''14'''<br /> [[Swiss classification]]: '''1/4'''
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