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(54 Continued): to improve riding qualities at high
speeds. Apparently it rode better but cost more than
conventional trucks, and was not widely adopted.
55: The Gould high speed truck had sprung journal
boxes in pedestal jaws, as well as both coil and
leaf springs between the side frames and bolster.
A self-aligning spring-plankless double-truss truck,
it employed all of the innovations developed in the
1930s by the four-wheel railway truck consortium.
56: Another high-speed truck that employed sprung
journal boxes sliding vertically in pedestal jaws was
the Barber S-5-L, which also had Barber lateral motion
devices.
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