Talk:Lateral motion device

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Radius[edit]

What is the equivalent radius in metres of a 23-degree curve? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tabletop (talk • contribs) 01:58, August 27, 2006

Statement on Italian class 640[edit]

Hi!

The statement made about the italian class 640 is partially correct because most of the italian locomotive were fitted with this solution. Named "Carrello italiano" or "Italian truck", it was used in many classes that was placed on 1'..x wheel arrangement. Class 685, 746 and even smaller 740 used the same truck at the front. Bearing for the rods on the first driver where the weak point, because on the typical sharp curves of norther Italy lines wearing was high.

Further in the years italian rail engineer designed a new wheel arrangment to solve the same issue for electric locomotives: it was the articulated B0'B0'B0' tha was not "dumped" until the late 80' when italian railway design switched to "Pendolino" tilting high speed trains.--Hosdo (talk) 15:10, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Smaller vs Larger[edit]

"The farther apart the front and rear drivers were, the smaller the radius of curve that the locomotive could negotiate."

I believe this is backwards and should be, "The closer the front and rear drivers are, the smaller the radius of curve that the locomotive can negotiate." You might also change the tense from past to present. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.198.215.49 (talk) 06:30, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]