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Hybrid Locomotive Gains Traction
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Hybrid cars, trucks and buses have already hit the road. Now, make way for the Green Goat, the world’s biggest hybrid. It’s a 2,000-horsepower locomotive that radically reduces fuel consumption and emissions of pollutants.
The Green Goat is a diesel-electric hybrid in which the normal massive diesel locomotive engine is replaced by a 290-horsepower inline 6-cylinder diesel truck engine and a 600-volt battery bank. The batteries supply the power needed to drive the electric traction motors on the wheels of this 280,000-pound "goat."
Goat is railroad lingo for the smaller locomotives used for moving rail cars around over short distances.
By Stephen Leahy
Full Story: http://wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,66998,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6
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