What is the weight of a train engine?

How big is the engine in a train?

The main engine in this locomotive is a General Motors EMD 710 series engine. The “710” means that each cylinder in this turbocharged, two-stroke, diesel V-12 has a displacement of 710 cubic inches (11.6 L).

GE AC6000CW. The AC6000CW is a 6,000-horsepower (4,500 kW) diesel electric locomotive built by GE Transportation. This locomotive, along with the EMD SD90MAC, is among the most powerful single-engined diesel locomotives in the world.

The world’s longest and heaviest train operated on June 21, 2001, between Newman and Port Headland in Western Australia. The train operated 170 miles (274 km) with 682 loaded iron ore cars. The train weighed 99,734 tons and measured 4.57 miles (7.35 km) in length.

Here are some facts about passenger trains: The average Amtrak locomotive today weighs about 150 tons. The average Amtrak passenger car weighs about 65 tons. So an Amtrak train with one locomotive and six cars weighs about 540 tons, or 1.08 million pounds.

This efficiency might be stated as “a truck can move a ton of freight 134 miles on a gallon of fuel.” Similarly, a typical train might haul 3000 tons of freight 500 miles and consume approximately 3185 gallons of diesel fuel.

The nation’s 38,790 locomotive engineers made $52,940 per year, or $25.45 per hour, as of May 2011, states the BLS. Salaries fell to less than $35,730, or $17.18, for the lowest 10 percent of engineers or rose to more than $79,340, or $38.14, for the highest 10 percent.

The heaviest trains in Finland weigh approximately 5,400 tonnes (5,310 long tons; 5,950 short tons) and carry iron ore pellets (taconite) from the mines and processing plant in Kostomuksha, Russia. They go from Kostomuksha to Oulu, Finland, as 60-car unit trains measuring approximately 880 metres (2,890 ft) in length.

The record was set on june 21, 2001 in western australia between newman and port headland, a distance of 275km (170 miles) and the train consisted of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000 locomotives giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moved 82,262 tonnes of ore, the train was 7.353 km (4.568 miles)

The average freight train is about 1 to 1¼ miles in length (90 to 120 rail cars). When it’s moving at 55 miles an hour, it can take a mile or more to stop after the locomotive engineer fully applies the emergency brake. An 8-car passenger train moving at 80 miles an hour needs about a mile to stop.

a Good athlete can sustain a 400W effort for a while. Instantaneous efforts like jumping or throwing can generate even higher short term power. A HP is about 750 Watts, for comparison. So humans can generate in the range of .15 to 1 HP.

GE Dash 9-44CWhideSpecificationsLength73 ft 8 in (22.45 m)Width10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)Height16 ft 0 in (4.88 m)Loco weight425,000 lb (192,800 kilograms) or 212.5 short tons (189.7 long tons; 192.8 t)

Boxcar Specifications50′ Standard50′ Hi-roofExterior Length55′ 5″58′ 2″Exterior Width10′ 7″10′ 8″Cubic Capacity5,238 ft.6,269 ft.Freight Capacity70 – 100 tons100 tons

A large diesel engine turns a shaft that drives a generator which makes electricity. This electrical energy powers large electric motors at the wheels called ‘traction motors’. To make a diesel electric locomotive power system it takes mechanical, electrical and control engineers.

A: The Boeing 737-800 is an example of an average sized airplane. It has a maximum takeoff weight of about 80,000 kg (175,000 lbs). This includes the weight of the plane, which is about 41,000 kg (90,000 lbs), and the weight of the fuel which is about 18,000 kg (40,000 lbs).

Generally speaking, the maximum passenger track speed in most of the country is about 80 MPH. On some stretches of track some trains can reach 150 MPH, and a few test trains have achieved 170 MPH, but this isn’t normal.

Prices back in 2001 were from about $1,500,000 for DC units like an SD70 to about $2,300,000 for an AC unit such as the SD90MAC, with the average price for a new locomotive at about $1,700,000.

This means that between Everett and the Cherry Point coal port, there would be upwards of 30 trains total a day. Each loaded coal car (an open-top gondola or bottom dump hopper or bottom dump rapid discharge railcar) weighs an average of 143 tons.

A general loaded indian train as weigh as 220 elephants weigh together (or) 1crore marie gold biscuit packets. General bogie: 37 tonnes loaded : 49 tonnes as per the calculation of average no of bogies attached to train one can calculate. Thus a general indian train would roughly weight around 1100 tonnes.

Indian locomotive class WDM-2hideSpecificationsAxle load18,800 kg (41,400 lb)Loco weight112,800 kg (248,700 lb)Fuel typeDieselFuel capacity5,000 L (1,100 imp gal; 1,300 US gal)

Local trains with less cars might weigh anywhere from 1,500 tons to 6,000 tons or more. Locomotives by themselves weigh anywhere from 100 tons to 225 tons each, and are included in the amount of total weight of a typical freight train.

Originally posted 2022-03-31 02:10:27.