Today's high powered diesel electric and electric locomotives can work beyond adhesion limits previously used in design of steam locomotives and thus magnify manifold problems resulting from wheel slip; results of laboratory and field tests; effect of oil deposits on rails resulting in low adhesion limits.
Why do locomotive wheels slip?
Gen Elec Rev
General Electric Review ; 58 , n 5
1955
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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