A 38 is a boxcab locomotive, so no it does not have side rods and would not need to be quartered.
Steam engines, which typically have side rods, which generally connect between the wheels on each side, need to have the wheels installed so that the holes for attaching the side rods line up with the other wheels on the same side.
Quartering is best described in this link
http://www.wwfry.org/pics/Stea...motiveQuartering.pdf
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