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What is a Mogul locomotive?
In railway terms, a Mogul is a steam locomotive that has the wheel arrangement 2-6-0.
This means that a Mogul will have two leading wheels at the front (one on either side of the locomotive), six powered wheels in the middle (three on either side) and no trailing wheels. When it comes to named wheel arrangements, it doesn't matter who designed or built the locomotive, all steam engines with that particular arrangement will be known by the same name (although additional wording regarding type or manufacturer will be included to distinguish between types of Mogul).
Wheel arrangements were originally given names to help railways allocate locomotives to specific tasks. This is because the suitability of a locomotive to a particular load or route often depended on its wheel arrangement as much as its power output. However, as more variations of wheel arrangements were developed, it became impractical to identify arrangements in this way and the Whyte Notation system of using figures to represent the wheels superseded the practice.
Although the use of the Whyte Notation system greatly benefitted railway companies from a planning and allocation perspective, the old names for some of the more common wheel arrangements prevailed and continue to be used as a fond nickname even to this day.
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