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- From: bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Traction motors(was:Re: ICE trains withdrawn in October?)
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 02:00:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.221903.5009@cs.su.oz.au> matthew@cs.su.oz (Matthew Geier)
- writes:
- > In article <TSOS.174.721926232@uni-duesseldorf.de> TSOS@uni-duesseldorf.de
- (Detlef Lannert) writes:
- >
- > >It's correct that they had problems with the rotor parts of the traction
- > >motors. I don't know if any of them actually broke but cracks showed up
- > >when the motors were inspected.
- >
- > A similar type of problem has showen up on Sydneys new 'Tangara' trains,
- > a unit derailed in a yard because a bogie collapsed. It was then found that
- > it an a number of other bogies in the set were cracked.
- >
- An old problem in the same vein of traction motor defects seems to have
- occurred with the EMD D-67 traction motors, used in the GP-35 (I think).
- The insides would melt under heavy use.
-
- -Bill
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