Why do they have a loco placed in the middle of the rake.

Rahul

Posted by Rahul Rao on 2010 Jan 10 11:24:06 +0000

Do they have seperate crew here, or is the loco MU'd with cables running through coaches.

Posted by Rahul Rao on 2010 Jan 10 11:30:13 +0000

One cannot have a MU jumper cable running the length of many coaches. It would create a lag in powering and could lead to rake parting. But there is another technology wherein the loco in the middle is controlled trough signals instead of the MU cable. I think this is called locotrol.

Posted by Ramdev Gowda on 2010 Jan 10 16:22:25 +0000

guys.. read the caption first ;-)

Posted by Vivek Pillay (Oldman) on 2010 Jan 10 18:53:39 +0000

@RG

One can have MU cables running along the length of the train(e.g. Saptagiri , EMUs) but locotrol is better.

Posted by Ashwanth on 2010 Jan 11 10:53:32 +0000