Why don't locomotives have mechanical transmissions? A transmission is necessary to reduce the high rotational speed of the diesel engine to the low speed, high torque of locomotive drive wheels.

Understanding brake horsepower: Diesel engines, like all engines, are built to perform a specific function. In a locomotive, that role is to provide power to move freight cars from one place to ...

INNOTRANS: One of the 30 Stadler Class 99 electro-diesel locomotives ordered by GB Railfreight through leasing company Beacon ...

A number of European manufacturers have unveiled new locomotive designs, several shown in public for the first time, at the ...

The Federal Government is set to achieve over 60 per cent savings on diesel costs following successfully retrofitting train ...

THE LOCOMOTIVES set to haul Vintage Train’s ‘Mayflower’ tour tomorrow (Friday, September 27) including to Bromsgrove have ...

The Federal Government has revealed that it will save over 60% of its diesel expenses by retrofitting locomotive engines by ...

The ministry of transportation says it will save over 60 percent of its diesel expenses on trains from a retrofitting process ...

The Federal government on Thursday disclosed that over 60 percent cost of diesel is being saved from the retrofitting process ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are ... The biofuel is being used to continually maintain the steam locomotive engine’s fire, which then protects their boilers.

and in the locomotive they are used to combine the output of more than one engine. The loco had four smaller-than-normal diesel traction motors that could be combined, but even then, it wasn’t done.

CRRC Dalian, a China Railway Rolling Stock Corp subsidiary, officially launched a 1,000-kilowatt new energy hybrid locomotive ...