Hill-starting a heavy haul train with a 24-axle locomotive
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DOI: 10.1177/09544097211008293
Abstract: Head-end trains are more efficient than Distributed Power trains in terms of train marshalling. This paper studied an unprecedent real-world engineering problem to hill-start a long heavy haul train at a 1.2% up-hill gradient by… read more here.
Keywords: haul train; train; locomotive hill; heavy haul ... See more keywords