The diesel engine is used on shunting locomotives with an indisputable superiority on steam. The railcars do make economically viable low traffic railway lines and are used world wide. The engine, vertical or flat, though of high speed and light, has to be economical and reliable. The road locomotives are used about exclusively in the United States, where they are very successful. The trend in the United States is for high speed engines for locomotives in general. In Europe, on the contrary, the preference is for engines of industrial type as slow as possible. The competition between the 2 stroke and 4 stroke cycles practically doesn't exist on the Continent. In the USA high power locomotives are engined with 2 makes of 2 stroke and 2 makes of 4 stroke supercharged engines. The hydraulic transmission is predominant in railcars. In locomotives the electrical transmission is exclusively used in the United States. On the Continent the use of hydraulic transmission is spreading up to 800 CV.


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    Title :

    Les moteurs diesel en traction ferroviaire


    Additional title:

    Dieselmotoren in Bahnantrieben
    Diesel engines in railway traction


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1951


    Size :

    12 Seiten, 4 Bilder


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Storage medium


    Language :

    French