DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE PART TWO

 

🚂SECTIONS OF DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE🚂

❓Why is it called a locomotive?

 The word locomotive comes from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus "place", and the Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion short form of the term locomotive engine, it was first used in 1814 to differenciate between self-propelled and stationary steam engines.

 

✅—Generator room.
✅—Engine room.
✅—Expressor / Compressor room.
✅—Nose compartment.
✅—Driver‘s cabin.
✅—Control compartment.
✅—Radiator room
✅—Under truck.
✅—Front truck & Rear truck. 

❓AtWhat voltage a diesel-electric locomotives work?

  locomotives is fitted with traction inverters, AC to DC, which deliver  1,200 volts (earlier traction generators, DC to DC, are capable of delivering only 600 volts).

 NOSE COMPARTMENT

 

🚂VA1B Control valve.

🚂A1 Differential pilot air valve.

🚂GD-80D & E type oil bath filters.

🚂Battery knife switch.

🚂Head light & Flasher light units.

🚂Control air reservoir.

🚂Sand box etc.  

 

DRIVER’S CABIN (MECH ITEMS)

 

🚂Hand brake assembly.

🚂Gauge panel–FOP,BAP&LOP(conventional  

      locos)

🚂Door for nose compartment.

 🚂Short hood Control Stand  

 🚂Long hood Control Stand    
 🚂Two Nos. Seats for driver
 🚂Emergency vacuum /Air brake valve.

 🚂Speed recording & indicating unit.Click here for👉  Details of Diesel Locomotive Part Three

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