Re: [CBQ] Re: Steam loco generator on EMD switcher?

[Gordon Smith <kc2bw@optonline.net>]

It is not from a steam loco. It is a Dynamotor, also called a motor 
generator set. An electric motor which drives a contained multi voltage 
generator to produce single or multiple B+ voltages required by the vacuume 
tubes in the radio set.

Gordon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jonnyo55" <jonnyo55@hotmail.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:53 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Steam loco generator on EMD switcher?


> Perhaps I should have made it more clear; the hood-top generator I'm 
> referring to resembles an electrical, as in turbo-generator, on a steam 
> loco.  I suspect it IS to run the radio, as the locomotive in question 
> features the "wagon wheel" antenna at its usual location among the 
> radiator shutters...but why would the Q (presumably) use a cast-off steam 
> loco turbogenerator for power when there's a rather large generator 
> (800-1200 hp) directly below it?
>
> John O'Connell
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "jonnyo55" 



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