Electric locomotives and catenary power systems - Part 2: power needs

The high-speed all-electric railroad locomotive uses a catenary-wire system and pantograph power-transfer arrangement, which appears to violate good engineering practice and should not work. Still, it does, transferring hundreds of amps via a contact point moving at over 100 miles/hour. Part 1 looked at the basics of diesel-electric versus all-electric locomotives. This part looks at […] The post Electric locomotives and catenary power systems - Part 2: power needs appeared first on Electrical...