axle loading

noun

axle loading

noun
1

Rail transport, Railways, Transport the weight placed on each axle of a vehicle.

  • Engine designers could and did specify axle loadings in excess of 80,000 pounds.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 60:
Related terms
axle load, axle weight

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