Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology

Parul Institute of Engineering &
Technology
Name Of Subject :EPU&T
Name of Unit :Locomotive
Topic : locomotive, trumways, trollys,track
Name of Faculty :Pratik Patel
Name of Studnets: (1)Ambarish upadhyay(27)
(2)Dhananjay chauhan(28)
LOCOMOTIVE
This article is about locomotives that run on rails.
For the type of heavy-haulage traction engine, see
Road locomotive (disambiguation). For the Russian
football club, see FC Lokomotiv Moscow. For the
1960s British band, see Locomotive (band).

Three body styles of diesel locomotive: cab unit,
hood unit and box cab. These locomotives are
operated by Pacific National in Australia.

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R class steam locomotive number R707 as operated by the Victorian Railways of Australia.

A Green Cargo RC 4 class electric locomotive repainted in its original livery
for the Swedish 150-year railway anniversary in 2006.
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.
The word originates from the Latin loco "from a place", ablative of locus,
"place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened
form of the term locomotive engine,[1] first used in the early 19th century
to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.
A locomotive has no payload capacity of its own, and its sole purpose is to
move the train along the tracks. In contrast, some trains have self-propelled
payload-carrying vehicles. These are not normally considered locomotives,
and may be referred to as multiple units, motor coaches or railcars. The use
of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for passenger trains,
but rare for freight (see CargoSprinter). Vehicles which provide motive
power to haul an unpowered train, but are not generally considered
locomotives because they have payload space or are rarely detached from
their trains, are known as power cars.

Traditionally, locomotives pull trains from the front.
Increasingly common outside North America is push-
pull operation, where one locomotive pulls the train
from the front and another locomotive pushes it from
behind. In this arrangement the locomotive at the
rear of the train is controlled from a control cab at the
front of the train. Push-pull operation is generally
infeasible in North America as, even if mid-train or
tail-end "helpers" are provided, the front-end might
have over 26,000 horsepower, net for traction,
whereas the mid-train and/or tail-end "helpers" might
have only 9,000 horsepower, net for traction.

Electrification
Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and is
usually associated with changing over from another power
source. The broad meaning of the term, such as in the history
of technology and economic history, usually applies to a
region or national economy. Broadly speaking, electrification
was the build out of the electrical generating and distribution
systems which occurred in the United States, Britain and other
countries from the mid 1880's until around 1940 and is in
progress in rural areas in some developing countries. This
included the change over from line shaft and belt drive using
steam engines and water power to electric motors
The electrification of particular sectors of the economy
is called by terms such as factory electrification,
household electrification, rural electrification or railway
electrification. It may also apply to changing industrial
processes such as smelting, melting, separating or
refining from coal or coke heating or chemical processes
to some type of electric process such as electric arc
furnace, electric induction or resistance heating or
electrolysis or electrolytic separating.
Electrification was called "the greatest engineering
achievement of the 20th Century" by the National
Academy of Engineering
TRACK
The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the
permanent way, is the structure consisting of the
rails, fasteners, sleepers and ballast (or slab track),
plus the underlying subgrade. For clarity it is often
referred to as railway track (British English and UIC
terminology) or railroad track (predominantly in the
United States).
The term permanent way also refers to the track in
addition to lineside structures such as fences etc

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