She went to the outside wheel and reached to one side, flipping a switch.
Because the outside wheel goes faster in a turn.
If the rear end starts to spin out, the system brakes an outside rear wheel, to help get it back into line.
Run the two outside wheels off the road on the railroad's side, and stopped there.
The valley floor widened here, not much but enough to turn a wagon if you swung the outside wheels up onto the slope.
The two outside wheels are used to cradle the rail and gravity does the rest of the work.
The differential normally allows the outside wheel to travel faster than the inside wheel during a turn.
It drove on the rim of the road, tilted at an angle, the outside wheels running on sand.
These inside wheels were substantially smaller than the outside wheels on each truck.
When a car turns, the outside wheel travels slightly farther than the inside wheel.