Today there are more than 30 units operating in United States and 14 Diesel rail cars in Canada; Diesel engine divided into several major groups depending on characteristics of design; majority in railroad service are equipped with electric drive, constant effort to devise other means of harnessing Diesel power and adapting it to traction purposes; Diesel locomotive is inherently expensive in first cost. (See also New England Railroad Club Feb. 14, 1928 pp. 191-219; Ry. and Locomotive Eng., vol. 41, no. 4, Apr. 1928, pp. 97-99)
The diesel engine in railroad traction
Ry. Age
Railway Age ; 84 , n 11
1928
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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