Talk:2-4-0

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I can find no evidence that this wheel arrangement was known as a "Porter" (or a "Junior") in either US or British practice. Steam-era US authors such as McShane called it a "four-coupled" altho that name seems to have existed more to fill a list in a book than in regular usage. British usage doesn't seem to have had a unique name for the wheel arrangement.

While HK Porter in the US built many locomotives of this wheel arrangement, they weren't the only builder, it wasn't the wheel arrangment they mostly built, and they did not themselves call it a "Porter". It doesn't seem appropriate to apply a non-historical name to the wheel arrangement long after it's gone out of use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:589:102:B920:BDBD:5002:5C1:1A38 (talk) 21:14, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mecklenburg is in Germany, not in Switzerland, so I moved this part. There is a country part in Germany called Mecklenburg Switzerland so maybe someone messed this up... --Bleichi (talk) 19:59, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why no mention of French use? The famous Montparnasse derailment was a 2-4-0. 216.255.171.122 (talk) 22:13, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]