. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . k has three indi-vidually driven axles and is provided with a single-axle,radius-bar guiding truck. Direct current is obtained from an overhead trolley at3,000 volts and is supplied to the traction motors whichare wound for 1,500 volts and connected, each pair inseries, across the line. Locomotive speed is controlledby series-parallel connections of the motors using ac-celerating rheostats, and by reductions in motor fieldstrength. Control is of the standard electro-pneumatic type 66 RAILWAY


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . k has three indi-vidually driven axles and is provided with a single-axle,radius-bar guiding truck. Direct current is obtained from an overhead trolley at3,000 volts and is supplied to the traction motors whichare wound for 1,500 volts and connected, each pair inseries, across the line. Locomotive speed is controlledby series-parallel connections of the motors using ac-celerating rheostats, and by reductions in motor fieldstrength. Control is of the standard electro-pneumatic type 66 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING March, 1928 arranged for non-automatic, multiple-unit is collected by means of two air-raised trolleys,either of which has sufficient capacity to supply the entirelocomotive. Each enginemans compartment contains amaster controller for governing acceleration and speed. Electrical Characteristics : Voltage at trolley (d. c.) 3,000 Tractive effort, one-hour rating 30,600 lb. Horsepower, one-hour rating 2,725 Speed at one-hour rating, full field Side View of No. 1 Truck of Electric Locomotive of the Paulista Railway a controller governing the traction motor fields and forregenerative braking and two other controllers, one theselector for regenerative braking and the other, the re-verse handle. Control couplers are provided by means


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