NOUN
- a locomotive driven by a hydraulic transmission system powered by a diesel engine
How To Use diesel-hydraulic locomotive In A Sentence
- As there are reasonably easy sections, the line was worked by ‘rack-and-adhesion’ locomotives, the principle of which was applicable to all three types but not to an experimental diesel-hydraulic locomotive seen on site in 1963.
- The company built three diesel-hydraulic locomotives for the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1964, an attempt to provide a domestic alternative to its small fleet of German Krauss-Maffei hydraulic locomotives.
- They were seldom used on diesel-electrics but were used on some diesel-mechanical and diesel-hydraulic locomotives.
- Faced with a steam locomotive fleet that was becoming too old and expensive to operate, the Emu Bay Railway purchased a diesel-hydraulic locomotive from Great Britain in 1953, with the intent of replacing steam locomotives on the mainline.
- This ultimately led to the downfall of the diesel-hydraulic locomotive in Britain.
- Each train consists of a diesel-hydraulic locomotive at the southern end, five trailer coaches and at the northern end, a driver control unit with passenger space.
