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trailing trucks

trailing trucks is the plural of trailing truck.

Meaning of trailing truck

Noun

trailing truck (plural trailing trucks)

  1. On a steam locomotive, a railroad truck to which wheel axles (and, hence, wheels) for one or more coupled pairs of unpowered wheels are attached through bearings, located behind the driving wheels.
    • After trying but not mass-producing a heavy Pacific and tabulating indifferent tests of a three-cylinder 4-8-2, Central was in a mood to explore the possibilities of four-wheel trailing trucks.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 19

Questions about trailing trucks

What is trailing trucks the plural of?
Trailing trucks is the plural of trailing truck.

Words near trailing trucks in the dictionary

  1. trailing spoke
  2. trailing spokes
  3. trailing spring
  4. trailing springs
  5. trailing truck
  6. trailing trucks
  7. trailing wheel
  8. trailing wheels
  9. trailingly
  10. trailings
  11. Traill

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