Wednesday, June 30, 2010
A different look at transport
Image source: Wikimedia
I happened to come across the subject of brown coal, its mining and finally its transport ... quite interesting:
"The lines of the works railway of the company RWE Power (former Rheinbraun) in the Rhenish brown coal area are electrified with single-phase AC current of 50 Hz at a nominal voltage of 6 kV which is different from the railway current/voltage common in Germany (15 kV at 16 2/3 Hz). In view of the large quantities transported the locomotives need high pull force, therefore the electric locomotives have all been specially designed. So, the locomotives of the EL 1 series were the first electric locomotives with thyristor controller worldwide and thus a milestone in the development of rail vehicles."
»»» Further information see Wikipedia
Labels:
coal,
controller,
locomotive,
mining,
railway,
rheinbraun,
thyristor,
transportation
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