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Hydrogen locomotive (www.money.pl)
submitted 1 year ago by Mixel@szmer.info to c/technology@lemmy.world
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First hydrogen locomotive started working in Poland.

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[โ€“] QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That would make the locomotive lighter

That's not an advantage. You want your loco to be as heavy as possible for traction. If they were switching it to pantograph and it was lighter they'd add iron, or something else to make up the difference

[โ€“] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You want your loco to be as heavy as possible for traction.

I see you don't know why Caucasus was electrified. Non-electric locomotives were just too heavy and couldn't lift as much as mass as electric could.