How Diesel Locomotives Work - HowStuffWorks
网页2022年4月14日 · The locomotives weigh between 100 and 200 tons (91,000 and 181,000 kilograms) and are designed to tow passenger-train cars at speeds of up to 125 miles per hour (200 kph). Siemens' modern engines produce up to 4,200 horsepower, and the generator can turn this into almost 4,700 amps of electrical current.
GE AC6000CW - Wikipedia
网页The AC6000CW is a 6,000-horsepower (4,500 kW) diesel electric locomotive built between 1995 and 2001 by GE Transportation. It is among the world's most powerful single-engined diesel locomotives. The locomotive was designed for extremely high horsepower needs, such as pulling heavy coal and ore trains.
Diesel locomotive - Wikipedia
网页Modern locomotives incorporate traction inverters, AC to DC, capable of delivering 1,200 volts (earlier traction generators, DC to DC, were capable of delivering only 600 volts). This improvement was accomplished largely through improvements in silicon diode technology.
Diesel Locomotives - The Railway Technical Website
网页The modern diesel locomotive is a self contained version of the electric locomotive. Like the electric locomotive, it has electric drive, in the form of traction motors driving the axles and controlled with electronic controls.
The 9 Most Powerful Locomotives in the World - The Drive
网页2018年6月15日 · While mid-century American bruisers like the General Electric DDA40X coursed with 6,600 diesel-electric horsepower, the contemporary electric motors from Russian and Chinese manufacturers can top...
Tips for identifying modern diesel locomotives - Trains
网页2020年4月22日 · Many readers have asked how we identify the current crop of big, modern road diesels. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy, as many locomotive designs have evolved into a family of similar looking locomotives. This means modelers have to study the details to figure out what locomotive is represented by a specific scale model.
How a Diesel-Electric Locomotive Works - YouTube
网页Peer deep into the workings of a heavy-haul freight locomotive, rendered in full 3D!CREDITSJacob O'Neal - Modeling, animation, texturing, vfx, music, narrati...
Diesel locomotives by generation - Trains
网页2023年7月1日 · Today, fourth-generation locomotives dominate key trains, but there are plenty of third-generation diesels still in mainline service, and many earlier third-gen diesels have been acquired by regional and shortline railroads to replace their aging second-hand first- and second-generation diesels.
Tracks in time: 200 years of locomotive technology
网页2015年5月19日 · While it would take several decades before the benefits of diesel could be properly realised on rail locomotives, the ongoing development of increasingly efficient diesel engines with improved power-to-weight ratios in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – many of which originated at Swiss engineering firm Sulzer, at which Rudolph Diesel ...
The Tech That Makes GE's New Locomotive Its Cleanest Ever
网页2015年5月12日 · GE is the first company to meet the EPA's new Tier 4 requirements for train locomotives. Here's how they did it. The GE Evolution Series Tier 4 Locomotive in testing on the plains of Colorado's...
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