Standard Unit Navigation Co. of St. Louis has installed new system of river transportation on Cumberland river in Tennessee; electrically propelled towboats, with caterpillar drive are used to move barge trains up and down river hauling freight; Sunco-A4 is 90 ft. long and equipped with two Winton 6-cylinder, solid-injection Diesel engines; directly connected to each engine are two generators and exciter; two propulsion engines develop total of 160 hp. at 600 r.p. m., power being transmitted to wheel drive shafts by means of drive chains. (see also Pac. Mar. Rev., vol. 26, no. 10, Oct. 1929, pp. 422-423, 3 figs.; and Log, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 1929, p. 13, 3 figs)
River towboat has tractor drive
Mar. Eng. Shipg. Age
Marine Engineering and Shipping Age ; 34 , n 10
1929
4 Figs.
Article (Journal)
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River towboat has tractor drive
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River towboat has tractor drive
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