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It is used in conjunction with the reversing lever to start, to stop, and to control the locomotive's power output. When the regulator/throttle is closed, a vacuum valve (snifting valve) [3]: 89 permits air to be drawn through the superheater and cylinders to allow the engine to coast freely.
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The New Haven EP-5 was a double-ended mercury arc rectifier electric locomotive built in 1955 by General Electric, for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.It was built to haul passenger trains between Grand Central Terminal or Penn Station in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. [1]
In addition, Westinghouse produced and supplied electrical and traction equipment for Baldwin diesel locomotives from 1939 to 1955 and Lima-Hamilton diesels from 1949-1951 until production at Lima, Ohio ended with the merger into Baldwin.
The firm was the successor to the firm of Owens, Ebert & Dyer (founded in 1845 by Job E. Owens) which went into receivership in 1876. [1]In 1882, George A. Rentschler, J. C. Hooven, Henry C. Sohn, George H. Helvey, and James E. Campbell merged the firm with the iron works of Sohn and Rentschler, [1] [2] and adopted the name Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co.
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In a conventional Mallet, the rigid boiler is fixed to the rearmost of the two engine frames, with the front of the boiler supported on a sliding bearing over the pivoting front engine such that when the locomotive traverses a curved track, the front end of the boiler overhangs toward the outside of the curve. The jointed boiler, with the front ...
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