bogie

Noun

Meaning

A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. Lauren Bacall

After World War II, in an attempt to overcome the difference in gauges and speed up traffic, a bogie exchange device lifted freight wagons and carriages allowing workers to refit rolling stock with different gauged wheel-sets. Source: Internet

Although Bogie wants to contact his ex-lover, Bailey Hampfield, he’s reluctant to do so since Bailey dumped him four years earlier. Source: Internet

A previous emergency stop had caused a wheel flat; the bogie concerned derailed while crossing the points at the entrance to the station. Source: Internet

Each set is made up of two power cars and eight carriages (capacity 345 seats), including a powered bogie in the carriages adjacent to the power cars. Source: Internet

B4 bogie B4 bogie as used on BR Mark 2 and Irish Cravens The B4 bogie was introduced in 1963. Source: Internet

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