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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv25newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Much greaterenterprise is displayed by steam railwaycompanies in Europe. The London &North-Western and the South-WesternRailways of England, which handles heavyurban and suburban traffic in London, haveboth decided to electrify their city lines,and now it is reported that the PrussianGovernment Railways in Berlin are aboutto be changed from steam locomotivetraction to electric traction. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. June, 1912. Electrical Department The Highest Voltage Direct Current Locomotive Ever Built in the United States. Recently the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company completed the electric locomotive shown in Fig. 1 for the Piedmont Traction Company. This locomotive is one of six which will is 7 ft. 4 ins. and the total wheel baseis 25 ft. There are four motors gearedto the axles, two to each truck, whichare fitted with wheels 37 ins. indiameter. An interesting piece of apparatus inthe locomotive is the combination dyna-motor compressor which is shown by
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FIG. 1. 1,500 VOLT DIRECT CURRENT LOCOMOTIVE. be used in two railway systems in Northand South Carolina. These systems,when completed, will comprise a totalof 280 miles of track. The service willconsist of limited and local passenger,express and freight. At first 35 mileswill be built and electrified, using 1,500volts direct current on the trolley, fromCharlotte, N. C, to Kings Mountainand will be operated by the PiedmontTraction Company; and 95 miles will bebuilt and operated from Greenwood toSpartanburg, S. C, by the Greenville,Spartanburg & Anderson Railway, us-ing the same voltage on the trolley. The passenger and express servicewill be handled by multiple unit trainswhile the heavy freight will be handledby the locomotives. Each locomotiveis capable of hauling 40 freight carsweighing 45 tons each at 20.5 milesper hour, requiring a tractive effort ofapproximately 13,700 lbs. It is possibleto obtain a starting tractive-effort onclean dry rails of 27,000 lbs. The locomotive weig

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  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Locomotives
  • bookpublisher:New_York___A__Sinclair_Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
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