The Illinois Terminal was an electric interurban line serving western Illinois down to the St. Louis area. In the mid-1950s ...

Dynamic braking systems can also be employed, converting the rolling stock's kinetic energy back into electrical energy. Locomotives often use electric motors for propulsion. In electric systems, ...

All diesel locomotive designs struggle with the ... drives exploit the beneficial torque characteristics of electric and hydraulic motors, but the mechanical gearbox isn’t quite done for.

ASTANA. Nov 5 (Interfax) - National railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy JSC (KTZ) and French engineering group Alstom Transport SA have signed an agreement on the production of a new type of ...

Dynamic brakes are a supplemental braking system that is the conversion of a locomotive’s traction motors from electric motors to electric generators. This allows a train's speed to be adjusted by the ...

If you’re a seasoned international rail traveler you will no doubt have become used to the various sounds of electric locomotives and ... and their associated motor control schemes, but unless ...