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0-4-2 is a noun:

  1. Under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has four coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
    "Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, The Beauty of Old Trains (1952) p. 117:"

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What type of word is 0-4-2?

As detailed above, '0-4-2' is a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, The Beauty of Old Trains (1952) p. 117:
  2. Noun usage: The 2-4-2 tank engines of the Great Eastern and the London and North Western were simply adaptations of 2-4-0 main-line engines; the 0-4-4 tank engine owed its parentage to the archaic 0-4-2 mixed traffic.
  3. Noun usage: Edgar J. Larkin, The Railway Workshops of Britain, 1823-1986 (1988) p. 52:
  4. Noun usage: After five 0-4-2 saddle tanks in 1860, all other NLR motive power was constructed at Bow, and none of these early locomotives was fitted with a cab.
  5. Noun usage: M. A. Rao, Indian Railways (1975) p. 143:
  6. Noun usage: The 'Lord Falkland', which pulled the first train from Bombay to Thana on April 14, 1853 was built by the Vulcan Foundry in England and was a '2-4-0' tender engine. This was followed by other locomotives of the 2-4-0, 2-2-0 and 0-4-2 types, which continued in use for a number of years.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of 0-4-2 are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of 0-4-2, and guess at its most common usage.

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