Diesel Locomotives

06 September 2014
15:59

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in

which the prime mover is a diesel engine. Several types
of diesel locomotive have been developed, differing

mainly in the means by which mechanical power is

conveyed to the driving wheels (drivers).

The worlds first diesel-powered locomotive was operated in the

summer of 1912 on the Winterthur-Romanshorn Railroad in
Switzerland, but was not a commercial success.[9] In 1906, Rudolf
Diesel, Adolf Klose and the steam and Diesel engine manufacturer
Gebrder Sulzer founded Diesel-Sulzer-Klose GmbH to manufacture
Diesel-powered locomotives. Sulzer had been manufacturing Diesel
locomotive from the company in 1909, and after test runs between
Winterthur and Romanshorn the Diesel-mechanical locomotive was
delivered in Berlin in September 1912. During further test runs in
1913 several problems were found. After the First World War broke out in 1914, all
further trials were
stopped. The locomotive weight was 95 tonnes and the power was 883 kW with a
maximum speed of
100 km/h.[10] Small numbers of prototype diesel locomotives were produced in a
number of countries throughengines since 1898. The Prussian State Railways ordered
a Diesel the mid-1920s.

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