Freight Bogies

Manish Pandey
Director/Rolling Stock/SRESTHA
 Premium Three piece Bogies

• Swing Motion Bogie

• Cross braced Bogie
– Scheffel Bogie
– List Bogie
– Frame Braced Bogie
 Three piece bogies used today
• Today many Conventional three-piece bogies
are still placed in service all over the world.
• The Swing motion bogie is used for transports
of cars and other goods were ride quality is
important.
• For heavy haul operations in North America
both the Conventional bogie and the List bogie
are used.
• In South Africa and Sweden, the Scheffel bogie
is chosen
 Swing Motion Bogie
• This bogie was designed to improve lateral ride by providing the
equivalent of swing hangers
• The key feature of this bogie design is the disconnection of the
lateral track inputs from the wagon.
• The bolster is supported on springs through a spring plank,
which is carried on longitudinal knife edges at the bottom of the
bolster opening in the side frames.
• The side frames have knife edges in the pedestal area that
engage with the bearing adapters.
 Swing Motion Bogie
• Hence the side frames function as swing links.
• The spring plank interconnecting the side frames prevents any
tendency of the side frames to lozenge.
• A pivot between the axle boxes and the side frames is also
included so that the side frames can pivot or swing to
accommodate lateral motion of the bolster.
• The swing motion gives increased lateral stability at speeds up
to 176 km/h and is claimed to reduce wheel and rail wear,
reduce rolling resistance and forces on track and vehicle body
compared with standard three‐piece bogies.
Swing Motion Bogie
Swing Motion Bogie
Pedestal Rocker

Rocker Seat

Transom

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 Scheffel’s HS Bogie
• At first the horizontal
motion of the frame is
decoupled from the
wheelsets by horizontally
soft primary suspension.
• Then the axle boxes are
interconnected through
sub‐frames or arms by
elastic elements that
support their radial
position in curves, but
resist in‐phase yaw
1 ‐ side frame; 2 ‐ bolster; 3 ‐ wheelset; • having the axle load of
4 – primary suspension;
5 – elastic connection between sub‐frames
32 T
 Scheffel’s HS Bogie (1970)
• The bogie retained the
three-piece arrangement
and introduced a
subframe mounted direct
to the journals and linked
diagonally by cross-
anchors
• The primary suspension in
the form of rubber shear
pads between the
subframe and the side
frames
1 ‐ bearing housing; 2 ‐ subframe;
3 ‐ Rubber shear pad
Scheffel’s HS Bogie – Suspension Design
 List Bogie

• A pair of steering arms interconnected by an elastomeric

bushing located off centre inside the bolster
Frame Braced Bogie
Frame Braced bogie
• The conventional three-
piece bogie is modified by
introducing shear pads
between the bearing
adapters and side frames
• Diagonal frame-bracing rods
connecting the side frames
through resilient bushings
• The design is developed to
reduce the extra weight and
costs added to the bogie
when retrofitting existing
conventional three-piece
bogies
Other high Speed Freight Bogies
 LTF 25 Bogie

Max. speed= 120 kmph at 25 T axle load

• Inside bearing journals

• 813 mm dia wheel with disc brakes
• Stiff coil springs in primary suspension
• Rubber springs and hydraulic dampers in secondary suspension
TF 25 Bogie
 TF 25 Bogie
• The H-shape bogie frame is made up of two side frames and a
bolster which are fastened together by bolts.
• A radial arm connected to the frame by a rubber bushing and
a coil spring allows for a combination of lateral and
longitudinal movements of the wheelsets.
• Hydraulic dampers are fitted between the side frame and the
radial arm providing vertical damping.
• Two secondary springs and a traction centre connect the
bogie to the wagon body.
• The springs consist of a rubber/steel chevron sandwich and
are vertically stiff but allow lateral and longitudinal motions.
• The traction centre is attached to the bogie via a longitudinal
traction rod and a lateral damper
 RC25NT Bogie

• Eisenbahn Laufwerke Halle (Germany) has developed the RC25NT self‐steering

• 25 T axle load three-piece bogie ( welded truck) with direct inter‐axle linkages
• Presented at the Innotrans exhibition in 2010.
• The bogie has horizontally soft rubber bushes in the primary suspension and
flexicoil dual rate springs with friction damping in the secondary suspension.
• The bogie is equipped with disk brakes.
• The aim of the development was to build a bogie capable of stable running up to
120 km/h, keeping low noise criteria and negotiating curves with minimum of
wear. (running at 100 Kmph)
DRRS Bogie
• Designed to run at 160
km/h with 18 T axle-
load
• Reduced acceleration
levels for the
transported goods
• Allow radial steering
for the wheelsets on
curved track
• Low noise emissions
• Low weight, low first
cost and low
maintenance cost are
important
 DRRS Bogie
• The primary suspension
Maximum axle‐load ranges from 22.5 t at
100 km/h to 18.375 t at 160 km/h. consists of two rubber
springs above each other
• The two rubber springs are
placed with a longitudinal
displacement between
them
• A vertical load on the
rubber springs give a
resulting longitudinal force
that acts on the axle-box
through a pusher providing
vertical and lateral friction
damping approximately
proportional to the vehicle
load.
 Survey of freight bogies
S Mftr Designation Max. Bogie Max. Comments
N axle weight speed
load Km/h
1 CNR AAR 3 piece 32.5T 100
( also a frame
braced variant)
2 CNR JNZ-160 18T 6T 160 Welded H frame, Lateral dampers,
( 1435) disc brakes
3 CSR K6 25T 4.8T 120 Con. Three piece bogie with
(1435) adapter pads
4 CSR K4 21T 4.35T 120 Based on ABC-NACO swing type
(1435) bogie, minimises wear
5 DB TF25-E 25T 4.5T 120 Hyd. Dampers, coil springs with
Schenker- (1435) stiff rubber bonded Side bearers
axiom rail (track friendly)
6 Uralwagon 18-194 25T 4.9T 120 Con. Three piece bogie
(1520)
7 ELH RC25NT 25T 4.1T 100 3 piece welded truck with radial
(1435) steering, rubber spring in primary,
progressive spring in secondary,
400000 km’s for wheel turning
 Survey of freight bogies
SN Mftr Designation Max. Bogie Max. Comments
axle weight speed
load Km/h
8 Amsted Swing Motion 25T 4.7T 110 Swing motion truck with transom,
(1676) track friendly
9 Amsted Motion Control 32.5T 4.6T 110 3 piece cast truck using polymer
( 1435) roller bearing adapter

10 Amsted SSRM 29.9T 4.6T 100 3 piece cast truck using steel roller
(1435) bearing adapter
11 Standard S2-HD 32.5T 4.6T 110 3 piece cast truck using polymer
car truck (1435) roller bearing adapter, split wedge
(Wabtec)
12 Standard S2-D 32.5T 4.6T 110 3 piece cast truck using polymer
car truck (1435) roller bearing adapter
(Wabtec)
13 Standard S2-E 32.5T 4.6T 110 3 piece cast truck using polymer
car truck (1435) roller bearing adapter
(Wabtec)
Futuristic Bogies
 LEILA Bogie

• The LEILA bogie is a passive radial steering bogie

with a maximum axle load of 22.5 t and was
developed between 2000 and 2005 during a German
and Swiss research project
• The aim to develop this bogie was:
– to reduce the noise emissions of freight wagons;
– to reduce the mass of a bogie to be under 4 t and
– to reduce significantly wear and running resistance.
Leila Bogie
Leila Bogie
SUSTRAIL Bogie
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