Someone brought a recent copy of Continental Modeler to our monthly meeting. It had an article describing a class of 0-6-2 steam locos in Bosnia using the "Klose System", which I had not heard of before. This was the equivalent of a modern Diesel radial truck applied to a steam loco to pivot the driving axles to keep them perpendicular to the rails on curves. A very complicated system of levers shifted the axle boxes fore and aft in the frame to pivot the axles, and to in turn shorten or lengthen the side rods. While it sounds like a maintenance nightmare, apparently the locos were successful and ran for some 60 years. Googling found the following page which illustrates the Klose System on several different locos:
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19 years ago