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== Spoke Drivers == | |||
[[File:AmericanDriveWheelDesign TheEngineer July1889.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Cross section of an American drive wheel, from "The Engineer", July 1889.]] | |||
Revision as of 23:02, 17 July 2018
Spoke Drivers
Boxpok Drivers
A Boxpok driver is a steam locomotive driving wheel that gains its strength through being made of a number of box sections rather than having traditional solid spokes (the name is a variation on "box-spoke"). Being hollow, they allow better counterbalancing than conventional drivers, which is important for fast locomotives. The Boxpok wheel was patented by General Steel Castings Corporation of Granite City, Illinois.