8 diesel locomotive breakthroughs

…shared technology. They both used spring-loaded pantographs, whose carbon brushes grabbed 600-volt DC power from above, sending electricity to axle-mounted traction motors. Their series-wound shunt motors were ideal for variable… […]

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New products for the week of May 30, 2013

HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SW1500 diesel locomotive. CSX, Louisville & Nashville, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Norfolk Southern, Reading Co., Seaboard Coast Line (Louisville & Nashville reporting marks), Southern Ry., Southern Pacific (“Kodachrome”… […]

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