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	Towing Locomotive #686
		The Locomotive is located at the Roanoke Transportation Museum at Roanoke, Virginia.
		This locomotive, along with its' sister units, remained in active operating service until 1964 when they were replaced by new units designed for operation on the new electrical power frequency (60 cycle) that the Panama Canal was converted to.
		Towing capacity of the complete unit (Traction Motors, Winch and Ship Cable) was 25,000 or 12 1/2 tons.
	www.serve.com /~CZBrats/Builders/towingloc.htm (756 words)

	Locomotive Upgrade - Programs and Projects - PanCanal.com
		Each locomotive weighs 50 tons, operates with two 290 HP traction units and has a towing capacity of 311.8 kilonewtons at 4.8 kilometers per hour, and of 178.2 kilonewtons at 8 kilometers per hour.
		As of 1964, they have been replaced with Mitsubishi locomotives that weigh 55 tons and tow up to 311 kilonewtons at their maximum towing speed of 4.8 kilometers per hour.
		The size of the locomotive fleet has grown over the years in order to cope with the increase in number and size of the vessels transiting the Canal.
	www.pancanal.com /eng/projects/locomotive.html (459 words)

	P-FMSIG :: 49CFR230: Steam Locomotive Inspection And Maintenance Standards
		A steam locomotive with one or more non-complying conditions may be moved only as a lite steam locomotive or a steam locomotive in tow, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section.
		In the case of a new locomotive or a locomotive being brought out of retirement, the initial 15 year period shall begin on the day that the locomotive is placed in service or 365 calendar days after the first flue tube is installed in the locomotive, whichever comes first.
		Steam locomotives that are equipped with air operated power reverse gear shall be equipped with a connection whereby such gear may be operated by steam or by an auxiliary supply of air in case of failure of the main reservoir air pressure.
	trains.rockycrater.org /cfr/49cfr230.php (14791 words)

	R & A Main Ltd, Edmonton
		The illusion of a steam locomotive was removed by a high apron-plate which ran round the frame, surmounted by a hand-rail and with a gap for across to the footplate.
		The towing hooks were similar to those on the first locomotive, and again only a handbrake was fitted.
		This locomotive, painted a dull brick red, was still being retained as a stand-by in 1957, having been superceded in 1945 by a small four-wheeled Ruston and Hornsby diesel shunter, (works number 237918), again a typical product of its makers, painted dark green.
	www.irsociety.co.uk /Archives/15/RA_Main.htm (1075 words)

	Staircase Over the Mountains
		Crusey, whose Canal service dates back to 1936, also was a towing locomotive operator and a tunnel operator before he moved up to the airy heights of the control house in March 1950.
		Breaking in as a locomotive operator takes two to three weeks and an operators first solo assignments are usually in the middle locomotives.
		Horizontal thrust wheels under the locomotives gripping a center rack track keep them from overturning by the pull on the cables which stretch from locomotive to ship through the revolving turret on the top of each locomotive.
	www.czbrats.com /Articles/staircase.htm (2182 words)

	Towing Tramways
		When towing a ship, as this is called, the animals, mostly horses, ran on small paths along the water-edge.
		The use of heavy locomotives with a low center of gravity on one hand, and a slight rise of the water facing rail on the other, faciliated running by adhesion, especially when employing electric locomotives.
		Today three towing locomotives are preserved in Germany, two at the Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Technological Museum) in Berlin, and athe third at the bridge of the Koenigsberger Strasse over the Teltow-Canal in Berlin-Lichterfelde.
	www.feldbahn.de /vorbild/geschichte/h-towe.html (729 words)

	Here are the Fall 2004 and Q4 MHI Items from Marklin
		Speed-dependent steam locomotive noise, bell, whistle, braking noise as well as acceleration and braking delay can be controlled with control unit 6021 or with mobile station 60652.
		Due to the weight of the locomotive, it is recommended that all tracks be fastened securely.
		The locomotive should only be used on turntables and transfer tables for the purposes of passing "over" or "through” these accessories.
	www.rjftrains.com /sales/mhi_4-04/mhi_4-04.htm (976 words)

	Willem Pot BV - Servicing the Marine Industry since 1899
		A vessel passing through the locks shall normally be assisted by electric towing locomotives using steel towing wires.
		All chocks for towing wires shall be of heavy closed construction and shall have a convex bearing surface with a radius of not less than 180 millimeters (7 inches).
		The convex surface shall extend so that a wire from the bitt, or from the towing locomotive through the chock, shall be tangent to the 180 millimeter (7 inches) radius at any angle up to 90 degrees with respect to a straight line through the chock.
	www.willempot.com /panama2.htm (1113 words)

	The Story of the Locks
		If the reader can picture a locomotive suspended in the air, and the driving wheel moved by power applied to the rim, the resulting movement of the connecting rod with the piston will represent in general outline the method by which the gate leaves are moved back and forth.
		The motor is remotely controlled by an operator stationed in the controlling house near the lower end of the upper locks, a simple pull of a small switch being sufficient either to close or open a 700-ton gate.
		The track used in towing a ship through the locks is a rack track to which the engine is geared.
	www.serve.com /CZBrats/Builders/Bennett/locks1.htm (3696 words)

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		The locomotive will be moved north from MSI on temporary track panels, on a bridle path parallel to Lake Shore Drive between 57th Street and 51st Street.
		The locomotive was in a park about a half a block from where it started the day, but pointed in the proper westerly direction towards Hyde Park Blvd. But the tender was on another track section, and still on its original more northerly heading.
		Apparently, much of the day was spent with a series forward and backward motions, where they would send the locomotive on a curve as far to the left as possible, relay the track behind curving more to the right, towing it back, then relaying the track in front more to the left, and so on.
	www.trainnet.org /Libraries/Lib002/SF2903.TXT (2505 words)

	Basingstoke Canal - the Railway locomotives
		The Society locomotive was purchased from a firm in North London and had been in service for many years at the Enfield Steel Works.
		Henry's locomotive had got pretty filthy after we'd used it for over a year, and so we gave it a good mechanical and pictorial overhaul.
		This locomotive, the 4th in the series, was hired from Alan Keef Ltd by Surrey County Council to make up the fleet used on the Ash Embankment Railway.
	www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk /rlyloco.htm (426 words)

	RAR-94-1
		The three locomotive units, the baggage and dormitory cars, and two of the six passenger cars fell into the water.
		The fuel tanks on the locomotive units ruptured, and the locomotive units and the baggage and dormitory cars caught fire.
		In consultation with the inland towing industry, develop radar training course curricula standards for river towboat operations that emphasize navigational use of radar on rivers and inland waters.
	www.ntsb.gov /publictn/1994/RAR9401.htm (997 words)

	The Brasov Locomotive Depot
		People at the depot have managed to organise their activity so as not to depend on other units, and are able to provide the repairs and of aggregates on locomotives (reduction gears, inverters, compressors, blowers, pumps, etc.), as well as axles - such as reconstructing the wheel rim.
		The train was towed by the 230.224 locomotive, one of the steam engines that once belonged to the Brasov depot.
		He was followed by other colleagues from the steam age, mechanics who worked on 142.000 locomotives, engineers who took part in converting to Diesel power, and among those who electrified the first depot and railway portion in the country: Predeal - Brasov.
	www.cfr.ro /JF/engleza/011/dep_bv.htm (488 words)

	Short STORIES OF INTERESTING EXHIBITS
		A complicated bit of machinery might be described for an hour, and nothing like the clear knowledge would be gained by the listener that he would get by watching the machinery work in a mutoscope.
		One locomotive, in the ordinary course of its work, ran lately over 125,000 miles in a year.
		Electric locomotives have a beginning with one that hauls coal at eight miles an hour.
	www.panam1901.bfn.org /documents/worldsworkdoc.html (12533 words)

	Power Testing System For Diesel Locomotive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		diesel locomotive is a new type of high power diesel locomotive...
		The locomotive uses computer control system, big screen colorful LCD and full power self-load testing performance resistance braking...
		The Evolution of the Diesel Locomotive in the United...
	diesel.sayinform.info /power-testing-system-for-diesel-locomotive.html (213 words)

	Inland Towing Engineering Jobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Stevens Towing: McAllister Towing: Bay Towing Corp. Kirby Inland Marine: Moran Towing...
		R-276: Towing Vessels Must Be Regulated Like Every Other Inspected...
		It is no wonder why there is such a shortage of available candidates for jobs on towing...
	engineering.oppbiz.info /inland-towing-engineering-jobs.html (255 words)

	Untitled
		This case also stated that a breakdown vehicle could carry out a suspended tow of a rigid truck, which in turn was towing a drawbar trailer, and deemed the breakdown vehicle to be a Locomotive, providing the design gross train weight is not exceeded.
		Note: Should you have to tow more than one trailer, it would be wise to inform the police of the area you are travelling in, because of the slow speed that you will have to travel at.
		The calculation is simple, establish the maximum authorised mass of the towing vehicle, to which you add the maximum authorised mass of the trailer (casualty), irrespective of the unladen / kerbside weights of either, add them together and that gives the weight required to decide upon the licence requirements.
	www.theivr.com /legal.html (6122 words)

	Diesel Turbo Performance Power Stroke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		DF4B diesel-electric locomotive is a major traction power unit on the main lines in China, and is characterized by good performance, low oil consumption...
		The hybrid is mostly an electric locomotive; the diesel engine...
		diesel locomotive for freight, developed for fast and heavy duty freight transportation of China railway, is an ideal traction power...
	diesel.sayitinforms.info /diesel-turbo-performance-power-stroke.html (225 words)

	Exhibits: Panama Canal Electric Towing Locomotive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The gearing provided a speed of 5 miles per hour, with a manual gear shift for two miles per hour, for rack and pinion operation while towing ships.
		The towing capacity of the complete unit was 25,000 pounds.
		Mules were operated on rails parallel to the canal, with one or more on each side to control and center the movement of the ocean-going vessels.
	www.vmt.org /Collections/panama_canal.htm (279 words)

	Panama Canal History - Design of the Locks
		Only after the ship was in proper position and under towing locomotive control was the chain lowered.
		The electric towing locomotive system was designed to provide complete control over the movement of vessels transiting the locks.
		The locomotives were built in Schenectady, New York, at a unit cost of $13,000.
	www.pancanal.com /eng/history/history/locks.html (2211 words)

	NARA - Federal Register - Executive Orders
		A view of a lower lock chamber of the Panama Canal, showing the bow end of a ship in an upper chamber, behind a closed gate, flanked on the left by a control house and on the right by a towing locomotive and three lamp standards.
		The lock gate and towing locomotive to be gray.
		The sky to be light blue and the water to be azure blue.
	archives.gov /federal-register/codification/executive-order/12304.html (255 words)

	Maybach Traction World News!
		The inclusion of a very dubious locomotive for train heating on the set that D1041 was using was very disappointing (I know of at least two people who refused to travel and stayed with D832 and D7076 all day), but unfortunately necessary to provide heat for the coaches.
		The locomotive had problems with starting in the morning, then B transmission refused to reverse at Bury which meant that all the remaining trips out of Bury to Rawtenstall were made on one engine.
		The survival of these two locomotives may be dependant on the survival of the elderly Talgo III coaching stock, which might have all but disappeared by the end of the year.
	www.maybach.btinternet.co.uk /news.htm (14153 words)

	The International Canal Monuments List - Part IIa - Individual Structures
		The 132km eastern section was operated as a horse and locomotive railway, but the 60km central section consisted of the Allegheny Portage Railroad with five steam-assisted counterbalance inclines reaching up and over Allegheny Mountain.
		The whole operation was labour-intensive, with 2.5-tonne boats being towed by two men, a third man on the boat steering with a pole.
		The wooden floor of the trough was held by wrought-iron hangers from the suspension cables that were largely hidden in the side-bracing for the wooden canal trough, with the two towing paths being almost at the level of the top of the low suspension pylons.
	www.icomos.org /studies/canals2a.htm (11563 words)

	The Panama Railroad Towing Locomotives
		Before 1960, the locks locomotives used at the Panama Canal were manufactured by General Electric.
		The first GE prototype was delivered to the waterway on January 27,1914, with an additional 39 units arriving at a rate of four per month.
		The modern Panama Canal Towing Locomotive #2 manufactured by Mitsubishi.
	www.trainweb.org /panama/pg3.html (132 words)

	Colonial Wargames - Colonial Wargames Rules - Additional and Optional Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A locomotive with four driving wheels can tow two 4-wheeled pieces of rolling stock and a locomotive with six driving wheels can tow three 4-wheeled pieces of rolling stock).
		The armour used was often standard boiler-plate, and the armament usually consisted of rifles, machine-guns, and light field or naval guns.
		A locomotive with four driving wheels can tow one 4-wheeled piece of rolling stock and a locomotive with six driving wheels can tow two 4-wheeled pieces of rolling stock).
	www.colonialwargames.org.uk /Rules_Models/Rules/BB2.htm (2090 words)

	ITOW Talk Towing Forum :: Your Online Towing Industry Community :: General Towing Forum :: Think You Have it Bad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		{{on my soapbox}} If those trucks were in America, we would not be allowed to charge enough money to facilitate the purchase of the proper towing equipment.
		I first saw them while watching the discovery channel or another channel and they interviewed a driver of a road train and it kinda takes a special guy to drive one of them for days without seeing anyone.
		some of these trucks are the size of earth movers,some have engines that you would see in a locomotive and drink about 600 gallons of fuel a day.
	www.itow.org /static/topic-3-1-461-0.html (191 words)

	LeTourneau Drive Systems Group
		This new locomotive will serve as a work car, and be used in tunnel and rail line maintenance along with towing operations.
		The locomotive’s power train includes a 630 hp diesel engine, coupled with a LeTourneau 4B generator, two LeTourneau B40 SR motors, and DC/SR converters.
		SR drive was chosen for this locomotive based on its low maintenance requirements, reliable operation, and ability to deliver high torque at low speeds.
	www.letourneau-inc.com /dsg/news.htm (1448 words)

	RV.Net Open Roads Forum: Denver to Virgina in June, recommend a good southern loop with a 5er?
		The National Cemetery at Chattanooga is the burial place of several of the "Andrews Raiders" (Great Locomotive Chase).
		You can follow the railroad south from Calhoun, GA to Kennesaw (Big Shanty), The General (locomotive) is the centerpiece of a new Civil War museum.
		The Glover Steam Locomotive Collection illustrates life in a turn-of-the-century locomotive factory.
	www.rv.net /forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/13424928.cfm (571 words)

	CBFENTON Panama Canal Vessel Requirements - Chocks and Bitts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		(1) All chocks for towing wires shall be of heavy closed construction and shall have a convex bearing surface with a radius of not less than 180 millimeters (7 inches).
		(2) No part of the vessel which may be contacted by the towing wires, at any angle, shall have less than a 180 millimeter (7 inches) radius.
		This position will allow PCC tugboats to work safely under the bow flare without the tugboats mast or pilothouse coming in contact with the vessel's hull.
	www.cbfenton.com /chockbit.htm (887 words)

	ALHN - America's Age of Steam - Timeline, 1800-1899
		He exhibits the first steam locomotive to run on rails in the U.S. (In 1815, he had received a charter from the State of New Jersey to build the first American rail).
		1830: The first locomotive in the U.S. to carry passengers, the "Tom Thumb," carried 26 passengers 13 miles over the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; the trip lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes.
		1831: English locomotive “John Bull” was shipped to the United States in unassembled form.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/steam/Early/Time18.html (1197 words)

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