it’s impossible to design a locomotive-sized conventional gearbox to do the job in the way it might be managed on a truck. Electric and hydraulic drives exploit the beneficial torque ...

The Class DD51 diesel-hydraulic locomotive was in service for nearly 60 years since the era of the former Japanese National Railways. The Class DD51 replaced steam locomotives as the workhorse of ...

The much-anticipated Krauss-Maffei ML-4000 diesel-hydraulic locomotive is now available from PIKO America. The newly tooled model, based on the 1961 prototype, has an injection-molded plastic body ...

Diesel-hydraulic drive concepts in the power class up to 2,500kW ... has entered a market segment which had previously been reserved for electric locomotives. In order to get this technology ...

The vehicles will be delivered in 2008 and 2009. The order was placed with an option for another six of these diesel-hydraulic mainline locomotives, currently the most powerful in the world. With this ...