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From: Railway Age | Date: April 1, 1999 | Copyright information

ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE INNOVATION

Electric locomotives which receive power from a 22,000-volt, 25-cycle alternating current trolley and transform it on the locomotive to 600-volt direct current power for use by traction motors are being built by Detroit, Toledo & Ironton. A test was made with a locomotive, designed to operate on direct current, and a flat car on which was mounted an electrical apparatus. The pantagraphs on the locomotive were used to collect alternating cur...

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