Brexit has made the Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Society's plan to recreate, and operate Britain's first mainline diesel-electric ...

and in the locomotive they are used to combine the output of more than one engine. The loco had four smaller-than-normal diesel traction motors that could be combined, but even then, it wasn’t done.

OmniTRAX Ohio rail affiliate Newburgh & South Shore Railroad (NSR) on March 21 placed a battery-electric locomotive (BEL), ...

Developed at Stadler's Valencia plant, the EuroDual family of lowemission multi-system locomotives is finding a role with ...

JUST A FEW YEARS LATER, SHE FOUND HERSELF WORKING IN NORTH PLATTE AS A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER. I APPLIED FOR THIS JOB THAT CALLED ME TO BE A TRACTION MOTOR CLERK. I HAD NO IDEA WHAT A TRACTION MOTOR ...

Back EMF is a function of motor design and rotational speed. The faster the locomotive goes, the more back EMF traction motors create. At some point, the back EMF becomes great enough that ...