Type of locomotive which permits application of d-c series wound traction motor, with its highly desirable characteristics, to electrifications deriving their power from single phase a-c trolley; this is of particular benefit in operation of heavy drag freight trains on mountain grades; units in service by Great Northern and Virginian Railways.
Motor-generator locomotives, their design and operating characteristics
Am Soc Mech Engrs -- Advance Paper
American Society of Mechanical Engineers -- Meeting SA-7 ; 1949
1949
10 pages
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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