Swiss-built Co-Co, No 6051 and French-built Alsthom No 6052 locomotives for French National Railways; in both there is provision for running on 1500 v d-c reduced power; main power circuit consists of three parallel groups of two motors in series; in No 6051 motor alternator supplies a-c to secondary of main transformer while Alsthom uses rotary transformer to supply traction motors with low voltage d-c.
Two S.N.C.F. 50-cycle prototype
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 98 , n 16
1953
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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