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While we are given the wheel arrangement of this locomotive, I can only speculate on the truck and suspension details.  Perhaps someone here can dig up the technical explanation in photos, drawings, and English text.  My guess is that this truck and suspension system is totally unique and unprecedented in any other railroad practice in the world.  It appears that the objective is to create a “light-footed” locomotive for track built with relatively light rail.  This locomotive is nominally 5-foot-gage, so I wonder how light of rail they use on tracks of that gage.  Their axle loading is already less than U.S. standards.  This TEM14 locomotive weighs 11.25 tons per wheel.  How light can rail be and still handle that weight?
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