Hot Water posted:Originally Posted by Jeff B. Haertlein:The correct wheel arrangement for a decapod is 2-10-0 some guys call them decs for short. A 2-10-2 is often referred to as a Texas type.Originally Posted by Hot Water:Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that the SP referred to their 2-10-2's as "Decapods." In my tiny, little mind there's a set of wheels that shouldn't be there.
Rusty
Well, according to the few "old times" that I met and talked to, they referred to them as "Decs", since they had five coupled axles. I had a hard time dealing with THAT, especially since they had those great three cylinder 4-10-2 locomotives. When I asked about those, the answers was, "Oh, you mean the 5100s?" I still never figured it out.
NOT on the Southern Pacific.
Jeff is incorrect. The first railroad to own a 2-10-2 in the U.S. was the AT&SF. Therefore, the common name for the type was "Santa Fe". If anyone thinks the SP or its employees were going to refer to any of its locomotives as "Santa Fe" types, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that's for sale. The "Texas" type was a 2-10-4, named for the Texas & Pacific, the first railroad to employ locomotives with that wheel arrangement,
