Electric locomotives and catenary power systems - Part 3: power delivery

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 2 of this article looked at power issues and numbers related to the […] The post Electric locomotives and catenary power systems - Part 3: power delivery appeared first on Electrical Engineering News an...