Frederick Methvan Whyte

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Frederick Methvan Whyte (born March 2, 1865 ; died 1941 ) was a Dutch mechanical and railroad engineer who worked for the New York Central Railroad in the United States . He is best known as the author of the Whyte Codification to describe the various wheel arrangements of steam locomotives in 1900.

The Whyte notation, which is used not only in the USA and Great Britain, but also in general in English and in the entire Spanish-speaking area as well as in Canada and Brazil, counts the successive running wheels and driving wheels (not the axles!) Indiscriminately with Arabic numerals in the sequence of a locomotive from front to back with dividing lines between the wheelset groups. ( Type designation of locomotives ).

In a railroad literature it is called "F. Mr. White," using the anglicized spelling of its name. In addition, some references also spell his first name.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harold Francis, The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America , 1913 Simmons-Boardman, New York p. 588
  2. ↑ John H. White Jr., Spring 1986, America's most noteworthy railroaders , Railroad History, volume 154, pages 9-15
  3. ↑ Riches, Dave, Big Wheel News , March 25, 2005, The Steam Locomotive Society of Victoria , [1]
  4. ^ Ian Inkster: History of Technology. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1-474-23725-3 , p. 75 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Big Wheel News , The Steam Locomotive Society of Victoria. Retrieved March 25, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Whyte, Frederick Methvan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mechanical and railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1865
DATE OF DEATH 1941