How weight reduction was achieved by Brown Boveri in electric locomotive construction; for first time 4000 hp was lodged in locomotive with aggregate weight of only 80 ton; with load of 20 ton on driving axles it was possible to dispense with pony axles and to utilize whole weight of locomotive distributed over four driving axles in two 2-axle trucks for production of tractive effort.
Bo Bo Locomotives, series 251, of Berner Alpenbahn - Gesellschaft Berne - Loetschberg - Simplon (BLS)
Brown Boveri Rev
Brown Boveri Review ; 32 , n 10-11
1945
13 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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