Monografiya soderzhit rezul'taty teoreticheskikh issledovaniy, a takzhe opisanie perspektivnykh tekhnicheskikh resheniy v oblasti sovershenstvovaniya konstruktsii khodovykh chastey telezhek lokomotivov i vagonov. Provedyeny primery chislennykh raschyetov po opredeleniyu ratsional'nykh geometricheskikh i kinematicheskikh parametrov takikh ustroystv. Prednaznachena nauchnym rabotnikam i inzheneram, zanimayushchimsya issledovaniem i proektirovaniem rel'sovykh transportnykh sredstv, a takzhe prepodavatelyam, aspirantam i studentam tekhnicheskikh vuzov, tekhnikumov, i kolledzhey zheleznodorozhnoy napravlennosti.