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Trailing wheel
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a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage.
- Weale.

See also: Trailing



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She was the first class of Santa Fe 4-8-4's (a 4-8-4 locomotive has four leading wheels arranged in a leading truck , eight coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels in a trailing truck).
That means it has four wheels in its leading pilot truck, which helps guide the locomotive into curves, followed by two sets of six driving wheels, and four trailing wheels that support the rear of the engine and its massive firebox.
The railroad maintains a steam locomotive of wheel arrangement 2-8-0 (two pilot wheels in front, eight drive wheels, no trailing wheels under the firebox), known in the trade as a consolidation type.
 
 
 
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