Jacobs bogie

The weight of each car is spread on one half of the Jacobs bogie.

They use Jacobs bogie, which allow for thin and wide gangways between each coach.

With this type, a Jacobs bogie supports the articulation between the two or more carbody sections.

Some articulated trams have bogies located under articulations, a setup referred to as a Jacobs bogie.

There are also articulated railcars, with bogies under the point between the carriages rather than two pivoting bogies under each carriage (see Jacobs bogie).

At each body's other end, that body was connected, in combination with the other body, to a central Jacobs bogie, in each case via a central pedestal.

Talgo trains are best known for their unconventional articulated railway passenger car that uses a type similar to the Jacobs bogie that Talgo patented in 1941.

In the Škoda ForCity, which is the world's first 100% low floor tram with pivoting bogies, a Jacobs bogie supports the articulation between the two or more carbody sections.

It was only after World War II that articulated cars were manufactured again; the first, small series of GT4 Jacobs bogie cars was deployed for Stuttgart in 1953 by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen.

The basic unit of an AC train consisted of two connected compartment carriages on six axles with motorised two-axle bogies under each cab front end and a Jacobs bogie in the middle, upon which both carriages were connected.

The series was made of six two-car units using a Jacobs bogie setup, each one having two 600 hp MAN engines electrified with AEG equipment that accelerated the 124 first class passengers convoys to a maximum speed of 130 km/h.

However, the E class was different in that the central Jacobs bogie was placed under the articulation of the two body halves with limited sideplay, whereas the D and EF classes have a single fixed body with sideplay in the central bogie.

Starting in 1959, Maschinenfabrik Esslingen and Hansawaggon, the latter mainly in Bremen and in Munich, tried to get into the market with their Kurzgelenkwagen construction - however, in West Germany their market share remained small compared to the Jacobs bogie cars made by Düwag.