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Could it in fact be a auxiliary generator. The main Generator put out 600 volts for traction power, the auxiliary generator put out 74 volts for control circuits. What was the radio voltage need? It may have been a rotary converter with a 74 volt motor turning a 32 or other voltage generator.
Steve in SC From: John Hagen <sprinthag@yahoo.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, July 25, 2012 7:22:21 AM Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Steam loco generator on EMD switcher? Yeah but a steam powered generator of any kind needs pressurized steam to make electricity. Where on a switcher would that steam come from?
John Hagen
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jonnyo55
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? __._,_.___
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