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Train Shed Cyclopedia #66
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| Locos of The 40’s & 50’s (Electrics and Turbines) Part 10 from the 1941 Loc CYC & Railway Mechanical Engineer – 64 Full-Size Pages Reprinted from the Originals
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Contents: Electric Locomotives for Heavy Electric Railway Traction: There are 3100 route miles (7200 track miles) of electrified steam railroads in the United States. Most of the mileage lies in sections where traffic is dense, with the result that about ten percent of the passenger car miles and nearly that much of the freight traffic is moved with electric motive power. *** The Place of Electric Locomotives in Railroad Service: To effect operating economies and to expedite the handling of the peak traffic of increasing industrial production and public travel, the trend in railroading is toward greater concentration of power in single locomotive units capable of hauling longer, heavier trains on faster schedules. *** Commonwealth Electric Locomotive Beds and Trucks – Designs for Beds, Driving truck Beds, and guiding trucks: The increase in electrified mileage of American railroads in the past few years, coupled with the modern demand for increased speed in operation, has developed a need for more powerful and more efficient electric locomotives. *** G-E Electric Locomotives for Mine and Industrial Use – A complete line covering the entire range of service Requirements: GE has been manufacturing electric haulage equipment for half a century. As evidence of durable construction many of these locomotives built 35 years ago are still in active service. *** The New Haven’s Latest A.C. Electric Locomotives – Designed for freight service they can be used also for hauling heavy passenger trains between New York and New Haven *** New Haven Receives five more A.C. Electric Locomotives – Comparison of three types shows trend of development during the past ten years: Marks the latest step in a 12 year program of securing fast, high powered motive power for the railroad’s electrified territory. *** Gas Turbine Locomotive: In 1939 Brown, Boveri & Company, Ltd. Undertook to build the first gas-turbine locomotive for the Swiss Federal Railways. While the out break of the war delayed its completion the locomotive was completed in the fall of 1941. *** Gas Turbine Locomotives -- Experience on the Swiss Federal Railways with original 2,200 hp. Unit built in 1941 leads way to new designs developing from 2,500 to 7,500 hp.: The gas turbine incorporated in the first locomotive using this type of power is the last link in a chain of developments started about 1906. *** Gas Turbine Locomotive – Proposed design will use open cycle turbine and an electrical transmission – Thermal efficiency expected to be about 24 per cent: It was a committee of the Railway Fuel and Traveling Engineers’ Association, under the chairmanship of L.P. Michael, then chief mechanical engineer of the Chicago & North Western, which first explored in detail the possibilities of the gas turbine as a prime mover for locomotives on American railroads. *** Great Northern Single-cab 5,000 hp. Electric Locomotives – Two 360-ton locomotives, built by General Electric, have all the weight on drivers – Tractive force of 180,000 lb. Available for starting and acceleration: Designed primarily for heavy mountain service, this Class B-D+D-B, 11,000 volt, 25 cycle, single phase motor generator locomotive has a continuous rating of %,000 hp at the rail, with 119,000 lb tractive force at a speed as low as 15.75 mph. *** Electrification 50 years old – three railroads replaced steam locomotives with electric motive power in 1895: Electric Traction celebrates a half century of operation this year. Three Railroads, the New York, New Haven & Hartford, The Baltimore & Ohio, and the Pennsylvania, replaced steam with electric power, credit for Famous Firsts being claimed for two of them on different counts. *** Many pictures and Drawings – Condition NEW!
** JUST A NOTE: THE SHIPPING PRICE BELOW CAN COVER THE SHIPPING COST ON THREE TRAINS SHIPPED AT THE SAME TIME! **
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