Resistance load-bank installation at Eastleigh, Great Britain, locomotive works for testing diesel-electric locomotives up to 2000 bhp is described; tracks are arranged with test berths which can absorb up to 2000 hp; each berth has control room and bank of air-cooled expanded metal resistors; 3 reversible motorized fan ventilators are provided in roof, together with rectangular asbestos fume hoods over section of each track; schematic diagram of electric circuits and arrangement of control system for testing main-line locomotives.
Diesel locomotive test plant
Diesel Ry Traction
Diesel Railway Traction ; 17 , n 379
1963
6 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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