Railway rolling stock – Trucks – Radial
Patent
1996-02-09
1997-07-15
Le, Mark T.
Railway rolling stock
Trucks
Radial
B61F 500
Patent
active
056472838
ABSTRACT:
A railway truck and steering apparatus therefor having rigid steering arms which are fixed with respect to a pair or longitudinally spaced railway truck wheelsets, and preferably the axial ends thereof, in a manner to have an essentially fixed angular relationship in the horizontal plane with respect to the respective truck wheelsets, the steering arms extending from the respective truck wheelsets with pairs of steering arms being connected together in a manner to constrain the truck wheelsets to yaw in a mutually opposed sense and remain substantially fixed in axial shear relative to each other while being free to move longitudinally with respect to each other.
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"Supplier, Inventor Market Steering Car Truck" Modern Railroads, Technology News, Mar. 1990, pp. 62-63.
Brams J. Stewart
Hansen Inc.
Le Mark T.
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