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 ...

Diesel-electric locomotive technology has advanced ... sending electricity to axle-mounted traction motors. Their series-wound shunt motors were ideal for variable speed control from an eight ...

Canadian National today unveiled its first new medium horsepower hybrid electric locomotive, a Q19-2.4GH developed in ...

Electric traction is the norm, whether it comes from a trackside supply or from a diesel generator. In the middle of the last century, as the industry moved away from steam traction though ...

Edison Motors out of Canada aims to prove that, first with its diesel-electric Class 8 vehicles and then with its newly announced project: series hybrid pickup conversions pairing a Caterpillar ...