TOWARD A WEARLESS TRUCK

Apart from the wear at the wheel treads bogie or truck wear is confined to the journal boxes and guides, the truck and bolster suspension and connections, and the truck pivots or center plates. The use of modern rubber suspensions can now make the "wearless" truck a practical reality, as well as providing the desirable qualities of dampening the oscillatory motions vertically, longitudinally and laterally. The author describes these developments and presents with illustrations locomotive and car trucks built with the various types of rubber suspensions.

• Corporate Authors:

  Hestra Verlag

  Holzhofallee 33, Postfach 4244
  6100 Darmstadt 1,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • Gaertner, W
• Publication Date: 1965-9

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 406-413
• Serial:
  • Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Hestra Verlag

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Locomotives; Railroad cars; Rubber; Spring; Springs (Vehicles); Suspensions; Trucks; Vehicle design; Wear
• Old TRIS Terms: Rubber springs
• Subject Areas: Design; Motor Carriers; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00037604
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 8 1994 12:00AM