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diesel-hydraulic locomotive

NOUN
  1. 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.
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