pony truck
English
Noun
pony truck (plural pony trucks)
- (rail transport) Synonym of Bissell truck
- 1944 September and October, “New Pacific Locomotives for the L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 286:
- A bogie has been provided at the front end of the engines in place of the original pony truck; it is identical with that fitted to the class "B1" 4-6-0 locomotives.
- 1959 June, “The first "Peak" class 2,300 h.p. diesel-electric locomotive for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 296:
- The outermost non-driven axle forms a pony truck within the bogie frame, with its bearings in a cannon box.
References
- “pony truck”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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