A traction network or traction power network is an electricity grid for the supply of electrified rail networks. The installation of a separate traction...

The traction power network of Amtrak uses 25 Hz for the southern portion of the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the Keystone Corridor, and several branch lines...

A traction substation, traction current converter plant, rectifier station or traction power substation (TPSS) is an electrical substation that converts...

25 Hz traction power for the Northeast Corridor in the United States Railway electrification system Traction substation Traction power network "Muldenstein...

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instantaneous power is not constant. Standard frequencies of single-phase power systems are either 50 or 60 Hz. Special single-phase traction power networks may...

largest traction current motor-generator sets ever built. It feeds the 110 kV balanced line traction power network through appropriate transformers. Power can...

Amtrak’s 60 Hz traction power system operates along the Northeast Corridor between New Haven, Connecticut, and Boston, Massachusetts. This system was built...

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) operates a 25-hertz traction power system in the vicinity of Philadelphia. The system, which SEPTA inherited...

uses the same traction current system. Formerly, the Porjus Hydroelectric Power Station provided electric power to the traction network. In the future...

generation, a special transmission network, central and decentral converter plants. In Germany, the voltage of traction current grid is 110 kV. In the Northeastern...

(March 9, 2006), "5.1 Ground Level Power Supply", Wire-Free Traction System Technology Review (PDF), Edinburgh Tram Network John D Swanson (2003), "Ground...

changes. Amtrak's 25 Hz Traction Power System Built by PRR about two decades after New Haven's Amtrak's 60 Hz Traction Power System Amtrak's system east...

developed in America, primarily by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since its traction power network was centrally supplied and only segmented by abnormal conditions...

Norway. The high voltage enables high power transmission with the lower frequency reducing the losses of the traction motors that were available at the beginning...

carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number...

were used for electric locomotives, fed by special low-frequency traction power networks to avoid problems with commutation under heavy and varying loads...

product of the aerodynamic drag plus traction force on the wheels, and the velocity of the vehicle. The output power of a motor is the product of the torque...

modified to use both power systems, which would reduce performance and cost over $20 million. This system would also require that traction supply substations...

that region. Other power frequencies are still used. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway use traction power networks for railways, distributing...

hydropower electrified its network in part in reaction to supply issues during both World Wars. Disadvantages of electric traction include: high capital costs...

represents a band of possible actual voltages, power factor and AC waveform shapes. Traction power networks routinely operate well above the nominal voltage...

In addition, as part of the Stage II project, upgrades to the traction power network, Operations Control Center, and signals and communications had been...

31 August 2017. "Networkers to get Hitachi traction package". The Railway Magazine. No. 1275. July 2007. p. 77. "Class 465 traction upgrade in full flow"...

generators are also used in special applications such as single-phase traction power for railway electrification systems. The design of revolving armature...

lengths of the following railways: Amtrak (735 km), Deseret Power Railway (53 km), Iowa Traction Railway (9 km), Long Island Rail Road (237 km), Metra (99...

hand power tools. Until the 1970s they dominated electric traction (electric, including diesel-electric railway and road vehicles); many traction power networks...

a length of 400 metres to 1.1 kilometres. The power supply was connected to the traction power network by means of two new spur lines running via three...

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classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas turbine, petrol) stock used on the mainline network since 1948 (i.e. British Railways...