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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A locomotive used in moving cars and making up trains at a railroad station. The driving-wheels and cylinders are on a truck which turns freely on a center-pin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Railroads) A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.

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  • Gotta get off this bogie train, man.

    December 18, 2012