Meyer locomotive
Locomotora Meyer
- Date
- 1861 · confidence low
- Place
- Mulhouse, France
- Credited to
- Jean-Jacques Meyer (1861)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Articulated steam locomotive with two separate bogies on which the boiler and firebox pivot, designed by Jean-Jacques Meyer as an alternative to the Mallet and Garratt designs.
What it led to
- more powerful articulated locomotives
- influence on compound Mallet designs
- adaptation to sharply curved tracks
- precedent for modern articulated diesel locomotives