Question

For a two cylinder locomotives, the crank are placed at right angles to each other.

(a) True

(b) False

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I would like to ask this question from Partial Balancing of Locomotives in portion Balancing of Reciprocating Masses of Machine Dynamics

Answer 1

Right option is (a) True

The explanation is: The locatives in general have two cylinders having cranks at an angle of 90 degrees to each other in order to have uniform turning moment diagram.