Identifier: railwaylocomotiv39newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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In connection with this main line electrification, more than 40 electric locomotives have already been delivered. Particularly for handling the service and meeting the ...
Each locomotive has a single box-type cab, having an operating compartment at each end and an equipment compartment between them. The articulated trucks have bar-type cast steel frames outside of the drivers, substantially braced by cast steel cross ties and bumpers, and supported by a three-point equalization system on the ex-press passenger class and by a through side equalization on the local passenger class. The cross equalizer on the express passenger type is directly behind the first pair of drivers. Lateral centering devices and spring buffers between the main trucks have been provided to give better riding characteristics. The main truck distribution and stability is obtained from the cab through center...
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...conditions on the two lines mentioned previously, the Imperial Government Railways in 1925 ordered eight more Baldwin-Westinghouse electric high-speed passenger locomotives involving six local and two express service units. Their design has been worked out carefully to provide the greatest possible degree of standardization of locomotives to meet all local and express passenger service. The idea has been carried to the point where all details of the units excepting cabs, main frames and equalization systems are interchangeable. This feature is greatly desirable from the maintenance standpoint as the variety of stock of si> are parts that must be maintained is minimized. By this advanced stage of standardization complete driving units consisting of the motor mounted on the driving axle, and the wheels, can be transferred from one class of unit to another without difficulty.

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