Severn Valley Railway (SVR) launched HydroShunter, a hydrogen-powered shunting engine, developed from the body of a disused Class 08. Built in Derby in 1959 it was being used for spare parts and was ...
In the few decades after No. 9400 was finished, thousands of diesel-electric locomotives were built with AC traction motors, as that’s now the industry standard. What you’re looking at here is an ...
The first locomotive to successfully use an AC (alternating current) three-phase asynchronous traction motor drive system was the German DE2500 diesel-electric in 1971, built by Henschel-BBC. DB ...