Locomotives used are provided with two 8-cylinder Sulzer-Diesel engines, each totaling 1200 b.hp.; engines are coupled to d.c. dynamos, which supply current to driving motors distributed among all vehicles constituting train, locomotive itself being equipped with two 136-b.hp. motors which are mounted in approved tram type suspension and drive two outer axles of four forming rigid wheelbase. (see also Sulzer Tech. Rev., no. 2, July 1930, pp. 8-11, 14 figs, and Tramway and Ry. World, vol. 68, no. 8, Aug. 14, 1930, pp. 70-71, 3 figs)


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    Title :

    Diesel traction on the Buenos Aires great southern railway


    Additional title:

    Far East. Rev


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1930


    Remarks:

    9 Figs.


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English