. The railroad and engineering journal . iagrams show in a very strikng way how gener-ally English engineers have abandoned the rigid wheelbase, and to what extent they have adopted for passengerservice the American type of engine in its general out-lines. The truck is now in use in the standard passengerengines of all except two or three of the principal Englishroads. It has been adopted in that country to a very muchgreater extent than on the railroads of France and Ger-many, where as yet the American type is very little known. It must be remarked that this adoption of the truck inEngland ha
. The railroad and engineering journal . iagrams show in a very strikng way how gener-ally English engineers have abandoned the rigid wheelbase, and to what extent they have adopted for passengerservice the American type of engine in its general out-lines. The truck is now in use in the standard passengerengines of all except two or three of the principal Englishroads. It has been adopted in that country to a very muchgreater extent than on the railroads of France and Ger-many, where as yet the American type is very little known. It must be remarked that this adoption of the truck inEngland has not resulted from any expectation of increase ofpower of the engine, which, of course, could not be securedin this way, nor has it been done to save the road bed, for,as is well known, the English lines are of extreme solid-ity. The object has evidently been to increase the sta-bility of the engine, especially at the very high speedsat which trains are now run in that country. ^ Vol. LXIII, No. ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 1360. Mti]a^-i:. 1663 Great-Easlcciij 369
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