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A bogie (called a truck in North American English) is a chassis, with wheels, attached to a rail vehicle, such as a boxcar. A bogie usually has four or six wheels. Each rail vehicle has a pair of bogies. The bogies can turn slightly to allow the rail vehicle to pass easily around curves in the railway track.

Images for kids

  • Seitenkipper-Ua4201-Drehgestell

    A railway bogie

  • Jervis' Bogie Locomotive

    The first rolling stock with a bogie, a locomotive built in 1832

  • Indirect truck

    Displacements of a bogie

  • Railroad truck, FM55-20.Fig8-8

    A diagram of an American-style truck showing the names of its parts and showing the journal boxes to be integral parts of the side frame The journal boxes house plain bearings

  • Commonwealth bogie

    Commonwealth bogie as used on BR Mark 1 and CIE Park Royals

  • Bogie BT4

    B4 bogie as used on BR Mark 2 and Irish Cravens

  • Bogie BT10

    BT10 high-speed bogie as used on MK3

  • Pacific Surfliner Truck-SC-44

    Front truck on Pacific Surfliner SC-44 #2116 at Santa Fe Depot.

  • P42DC Truck

    The truck on an Amtrak GE Genesis P42DC locomotive. The paint scheme is Phase V.

  • Septa PCC car truck

    Side view of a SEPTA K-Car bogie

  • Sprinter-bogie+articulation

    An image of the Sprinter's middle truck and articulation system.

  • Bogie-metro-Meteor-p1010692

    Mockup of the pneumatic bogie system of an MP 89 carriage used on the Meteor metro, showing the two special wheelsets

  • Oigawa-Archbar-Truck

    Japanese archbar bogie with axleboxes

  • Diamond Frame bogie (elliptical)

    Diamond frame bogie, elliptical springs and American style journal boxes

  • Diamond Frame bogie (coil)

    Diamond frame bogie, coil springs and journal boxes

  • Archbar ACL143

    Archbar bogie with journal bearings in American style journal boxes, as used on some steam locomotive tenders. Archbar bogies (trucks) were also used on freight cars.

  • CP9112 SD90MAC

    EMD HTCR radial steering trucks on an EMD SD9043MAC

  • FSRR 01

    GE radial steering trucks on a GE AC4400CW

  • Wheelbase and Track

    Wheel gauge, measured between the gauge or flange reference lines of the flanges of railroad wheels, is labeled "track" in this image.

  • Drehgestell SBB EC Waggon

    Bogie of an SBB Eurocity passenger car, as seen from underneath

  • Reefers-shorty-Anheuser-Busch-Malt-Nutrine ACF builders photo pre-1911

    Anheuser-Busch refrigerated rail car on archbar freight trucks

  • Bettendorf truck at Illinois Railway Museum

    North American Bettendorf-style "three piece bogie" with coil springs and (now obsolete) journal boxes displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum.

  • Journal box

    A journal box (no longer used on North American railways))

  • JacobsBogieArticulatedWellCarCanadianPacificTrainBoltonON

    Closeup of a regular North American bogie between two sections of an American articulated well car, with special side bearings and an articulated connector. The roller bearings are exposed.

  • SARCAST bogie

    A bogie complete with journal boxes

  • Bogie Talgo (7687615510)

    A Talgo bogie.

See also

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