 NZR DFT diesel-electric locomotive 7295 at Dunedin, New Zealand; own photo Image by Benchill, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY 3.0 |
CoCo And CoCo-Co locomotive Co-Co locomotive Locomotive wheel arrangement Co-Co is the wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives with two six-wheeled bogies with all axles powered, with a separate traction motor per axle. The equivalent UIC classification (Europe) for this arrangement is Co′Co′, or C-C for AAR (North America). This article needs additional citations for verification. (February 2018) A New Zealand DFT class Co-Co diesel-electric locomotive Co-Co wheel arrangement Use Co-Cos are most suited to freight work as the extra wheels give them good traction. They are also popular because the greater number of axles results in a lower axle load to the track.[1] History LMS 10000 of 1947 The first mainline diesel-electric locomotives were of Bo-Bo arrangement. As they grew… (Source: Wikipedia)
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