Electric locomotive
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electric-locomotive-227-3399215
title:
Electric locomotive
text:
An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor. Locomotives with on-board fuelled prime movers, such as diesel engines or gas turbines, are classed as diesel–electric or gas turbine–electric and not as electric locomotives, because the electric generator/motor combination serves only as a power transmission system. Electric locomotives benefit from the high efficiency of electric mot
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Locomotive powered by electricity
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_locomotive
date created:
2003-12-06T19:09:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T05:17:37Z
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