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trailing truck en · NOUN
Meanings
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On a steam locomotive, a railroad truck to which wheel axles (and, hence, wheels) for one or more coupled pairs of unpowered wheels are attached through bearings, located behind the driving wheels.
After trying but not mass-producing a heavy Pacific and tabulating indifferent tests of a three-cylinder 4-8-2, Central was in a mood to explore the possibilities of four-wheel trailing trucks.
1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 19:
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Relateds
leading truck · trailing axle · trailing wheel