Editing 0-8-8-0

{{Short description|Articulated locomotive wheel arrangement}}
[[Image:Erie L-1 2601.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The [[Erie L-1]]s were [[camelback locomotive|camelback]] 0-8-8-0s]]
[[Image:NYC 0-8-8-0 8701.jpg|thumb|250px|0-8-8-0 No. 8701 of the [[New York Central Railroad]] at [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]] in 1921.  This is a transfer locomotive.]]
In the [[Whyte notation]] for classifying the [[wheel arrangement]] of [[steam locomotive]]s, an '''0-8-8-0''' is a locomotive with two sets of eight [[driving wheel]]s and neither [[leading wheel]]s nor [[trailing wheel]]s.  Two sets of driving wheels would give far too long a wheelbase to be mounted in a fixed locomotive frame, so all 0-8-8-0s have been [[articulated locomotive]]s of the [[Mallet locomotive|Mallet]] type, whether simple or [[compound locomotive|compound]]. In the [[UIC classification]], this arrangement would be, refined to Mallet locomotives,  '''(D)D'''.  The type was sometimes called '''Angus''' in North America.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.steamlocomotive.com/misc/wheels.shtml | title=American Steam Locomotive Wheel Arrangements | work=SteamLocomotive.com | date=1991-05-30 | access-date=2008-02-08 | last=Boylan | first=Richard | last2=Barris | first2=Wes | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080126123957/http://www.steamlocomotive.com/misc/wheels.shtml | archive-date=26 January 2008}}</ref>

Other equivalent classifications are:<br />
[[UIC classification]]: '''DD''' (also known as German classification and [[Italian classification]])<br />
[[French classification]]: '''040+040'''<br />
[[Turkish classification]]: '''44+44'''<br />
[[Swiss classification]]: '''4/4+4/4'''

The lack of leading and trailing wheels to assist the tracking and stability of the locomotive means that the 0-8-8-0 type is not suited to high speeds.  The vast majority were used as very heavy [[switcher locomotive]]s (generally for [[hump yard]] work), [[transfer switcher]]s for hauling cuts of cars between rail yards, or [[bank engine|pusher engines]] for assistance on grades.

Most locomotives of this arrangement were built and served in North America, but there were exceptions.  The [[Bavaria]]n State Railways (K.Bay.St.B) built a total of 25 0-8-8-0T [[tank locomotive]]s of class [[Bavarian Gt 2×4/4|Gt 2×4/4]] between 1913 and 1923, classified after unification of Germany's railway systems as class 96.  These worked trains over heavily graded stretches of line, mostly as bankers (US: pushers) and were the largest locomotives in Europe when introduced.

==Popular culture==
O gauge models of Erie class L-1 Camelback locomotives been made by both MTH Electric Trains and Sunset Models.  

O gauge models of PRR Class CC2 0-8-8-0s were made by Lionel  

HO scale brass importers of the L-1 Camelback locomotives include NJ Custom Brass and Overland Models. 

The Bavarian locomotives have been modelled in HO gauge by Marklin/Trix and by Rivarossi.

== See also ==
* [[Erie L-1]] - the only articulated camelback locomotive

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.toytrains1.com/angus.htm Web Site of ToyTrains1 0-8-8-0 Angus Steam Locomotives]
*[http://www.ErieL1.info Erie Railroad L1 Class 0-8-8-0]

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