axle loading
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[edit]Noun
[edit]axle loading (plural axle loadings)
- (transport, rail transport) the weight placed on each axle of a vehicle.
- 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 60:
- Engine designers could and did specify axle loadings in excess of 80,000 pounds.