Question Bank For Chief Loco Inspector Selection Traction Part – 3

25-02-2019

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What’s the ‘tractive effort’ of a locomotive?
June 20, 2019

What’s the ‘tractive effort’ of a locomotive? The ‘tractive effort’ is a measure of how large a load the loco can pull and set in motion from a standstill — the maximum force it can exert at the drawbar or coupling. While the raw horsepower rating of the loco is important, it is not the whole story. The loco's weight also comes into

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Serial numbers: How are/were locomotives numbered in India?
June 20, 2019

Prior to 1940 or so, each railway company had its own system of numbering different classes of locomotives. Beginning in the early 1940s, the state began taking over several of the railway companies, and newer locomotives acquired thereafter were allotted numbers based on the ‘IRS’ (and later ‘IGR’) classes; but numbers were duplicated

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Were/are battery-powered electric locos used in India?
June 20, 2019

Yes. Western Railway inherited from the BB&CI Railway two broad-gauge battery-powered shunters that were used in a yard that was not electrified (and where the use of steam or diesel locos was thought to be too noisy). There is a picture of one of these in Jal Daboo's book. These were locomotives built in England in 1927, and for their time

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What kinds of bogies (trucks) are used by IR’s locomotives?
June 20, 2019

For mainline BG locomotives, there were, until the 1980s, two main alternatives. The venerable WDM-2 which existed (exists) in vast numbers, along with the WDS-6, WAM-4, WAG-5, and some of the WCAM-1/2 locos used an Alco design asymmetric trimount (Co-Co) cast bogie design. Most other mainline BG locos used some variant of the GM-EMD 'Flexicoil'

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LOCOMOTIVES/General Information
June 20, 2019

LOCOMOTIVES/General Information WHAT DO THE DESIGNATIONS SUCH AS ‘WDM-2’ MEAN? WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES FOR LOCOS? WHERE WERE/ARE LOCOMOTIVES USED IN INDIA MANUFACTURED? WHICH WERE THE EARLIEST DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT? WHICH WERE THE EARLIEST ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES IN INDIA? OTHER THAN

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What does ‘Static Converter Fitted’ or similar annotation mean on a locomotive?
June 20, 2019

Locos traditionally had a rotary converter (of Arno make) to generate 3-phase AC on board to power auxiliary equipment such as traction motor blowers, compressors, exhausters, etc. Starting in the 1980s static converters using solid-state circuitry to generate 3-phase AC on board have been used instead of the Arno converter, driving up efficiency

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