Slack action in long railroad trains can give rise to damaging longitudinal forces. This paper develops criteria for the occurrence of unplanned slack action in a unit train on a gradient change. It is shown that remote-controlled locomotives at the rear of the train can substantially reduce the incidence of such slack action. This is achieved by maintaining a unimodal draft force profile throughout the train. From these results is suggested how a train driving schedule could be determined for a particular run by considering the train parameters and the profile of the route.


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    Title :

    Controlling slack action in a unit train


    Additional title:

    Beherrschung des Waggonkupplungsspiels in einer langen Zugeinheit


    Contributors:
    Kerr, A. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1977


    Size :

    8 Seiten, 5 Bilder, 6 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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