4400-hp GE locomotive for Pennsylvania Railroad features transmission of alternating current in its 11,000-v, 25-cycle catenary distribution system; advantages of air-cooled silicon rectifiers compared with ignitron rectifiers include reduction in space required on locomotive for power conversion equipment and elimination of water-cooling and firing circuits required for mercury-arc tubes.
PRR's first silicon rectifier locomotive
Ry Age
Railway Age ; 153 , n 3-4
1962
Article (Journal)
English
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THE IGNITRON RECTIFIER LOCOMOTIVE
SAE Technical Papers | 1953
|Pennsylvania railroad ignitron rectifier locomotive
Engineering Index Backfile | 1952
|Pennsylvania railroad ignitron rectifier locomotive
Engineering Index Backfile | 1952
|Pennsylvania railroad ignitron rectifier locomotive
Engineering Index Backfile | 1952
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