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A catenary maintenance vehicle (also known as a tower wagon or tower car) is a railroad maintenance of way vehicle that is used to maintain and inspect overhead line (also known as catenary) on electrified railroad or metro tracks. [1][2] Such vehicles are typically self-propelled by a diesel engine, to allow them to operate when power is shut ...
Catenary (upper photo) is suited to higher-speed rail vehicles. Trolley wire (lower photo) is suited to slower-speed trams (streetcars) and light rail vehicles. Overhead feeding rail on the RER Line C trenches and tunnels in central Paris Compound catenary equipment of JR West An older rail bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed , retrofitted to include ...
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT; / ˈoʊ.dɒt /) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government [2] responsible for developing and maintaining all state and U.S. roadways outside of municipalities and all Interstates except the Ohio Turnpike. In addition to highways, the department also helps develop public ...
Pages in category "Maintenance of way equipment" ... Catenary maintenance vehicle; Clearance car; Crane (rail) D. Departmental vehicle; Drop table; Dynamometer car; F.
County roads in Ohio comprise 29,088 center line miles (46,813 km), making up 24% of the state's public roadways as of April 2015. [2] Ohio state law delegates the maintenance and designation of these county roads to the boards of commissioners and highway departments of its 88 counties. [3] Each county has distinct construction, signage, and ...
DriveOhio is an initiative within the Ohio Department of Transportation that aims to organize and accelerate smart vehicle and connected vehicle projects in the state of Ohio. [1] It offers to be the single point of contact for policy makers, agencies, researchers, and private companies to collaborate with one another on smart transportation ...
A catenary pole of the system. Catenary wires and contact wires are tensioned by individual tension balancers. The basic system unit is an elementary electrical section consisting of a segment of one or more parallel tracks, each with a contiguous contact (or catenary or trolley) wire for the locomotive pantograph and an electrically separate feed wire.
Three-phase AC railway electrification. Three-phase AC railway electrification was used in Italy, Switzerland and the United States in the early twentieth century. Italy was the major user, from 1901 until 1976, although lines through two tunnels also used the system; the Simplon Tunnel between Switzerland and Italy from 1906 to 1930 (but not ...