Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 354
M. Beugniot has designed a locomotive for an Italian mountain railroad, which is known under hisname. Its peculiarities consist in an arrangement by which the axles move laterally on the track,remaining parallel to each other. Four of the five axles are coupled, and the fifth, which carriesonly a… … The axle-boxes of the inside journals are provided with vertical pins, above and below, by means ofwhich each two boxes on the neighboring axles, on the same side, are connected with movableframes. The outside journals support a regular locomotive frame, which carry the cylinders. Thecross-heads…
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