Tilting train
Type of train that can tilt in curves
Tilting train
A tilting train is a train or locomotive that has a mechanism enabling increased speed along regular rail tracks. When a train (or other vehicle) drives around a curve at high speed, it experiences centripetal force that pushes against objects inside it. This can cause packages to slide around or seated passengers to feel squashed by the outboard armrest, and standing passengers to lose their balance and fall over. The train can physically tilt on one side, eventually causing it to derail. Tilting trains are designed to counteract this by tilting the carriages towards the inside of the curve. The train may be specially constructed such that inertial forces cause the tilting (passive tilt), or it may have an automatic computer-controlled powered mechanism (active tilt). The first passive tilting car design was built in the United States in 1937, and an improved version was built in 1939. The beginning of World War II ended development. Talgo introduced a version based on their articulated...
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