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    Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24
    Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24
    Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24
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    Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24

    By John H. White

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology - John H. White

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      Title: Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck

      Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24

      Author: John H. White

      Release Date: May 12, 2008 [EBook #25454]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INTRO. OF LOCOMOTIVE SAFETY TRUCK ***

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      INTRODUCTION OF

      THE LOCOMOTIVE

      SAFETY TRUCK

      by John H. White

      CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM

      OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

      United States National Museum

      BULLETIN 228

      117 Contributions from

      The Museum of History and Technology:

      Paper 24

      Introduction of

      The Locomotive Safety Truck

      John H. White

      118 INTRODUCTION OF

      THE LOCOMOTIVE SAFETY TRUCK

      John H. White

      Pioneer railroading was dangerous. With increased speed and density of traffic came an increase in catastrophic wrecks that forced operators to take heed for the safety of their passengers and freight. This safety was painfully achieved through the slow process of improving equipment part by part.

      Antedating such spectacular post-Civil War advances as the steel rail, automatic coupler, and airbrake, was the invention of the safety truck for locomotives. Intended to lead the bobbing, weaving locomotive around curves on the rough track of the early roads, it did much to reduce the all too numerous derailments that were a major cause of accidents.

      The Author: John H. White, is associate curator, in charge of land transportation, in the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of History and Technology, United States National Museum.

      American railroads of the early 19th century were cheaply and hastily built. They were characterized by inferior roadbeds, steep grades, sharp curves, and rough track. In spring, poor drainage and lack of ballast might cause the track to sink into the soggy roadbed and produced an unstable path. In winter this same roadbed could freeze into a hard and unyielding pavement on which the rolling stock was pounded to pieces.

      In those pioneering times the demand for new roads left little capital to improve or expand existing lines; therefore equipment was needed that could accommodate itself to the existing operating conditions.

      The first locomotives used in this country had

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