Freight train industry BOOMING

[Moonglow]

It's top secret. Will revolutionize the energy sector.

Hardly, is it anthracite, which coal is best?

 

[skookerasbil]

That's very common on larger applications of internal-combustion engines, such as locomotives, or large ships.

Winterborn consistently only knows half the story.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

WinterBorn consistently only knows half the story.

If that much.

 

[fncceo]

Just a reminder, a diesel locomotive uses the diesel engine to power a generator. The locomotive uses electrical power to do the work.

The original hybrid...

 

[Likkmee]

And the nutters think next year, they'll be bulldozing these to build solar fields on the site!!


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Those are probably waiting to go into the roundhouse for repairs

 

[ding]

Just a reminder, a diesel locomotive uses the diesel engine to power a generator. The locomotive uses electrical power to do the work.

In a diesel-electric locomotive, the prime mover is the diesel engine that rotates the main generator responsible for producing electricity to power the traction motors that are geared to the drivers. The prime mover can also be a gas turbine instead of a diesel engine.

Prime mover (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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