AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF ROTARY TYPE DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES FOR SNOW REMOVAL

Among the JNR operated lines, a total of one third inevitably require snow removal work to keep them open to traffic in spite of snow falls in winter. JNR has more than a hundred diesel locomotives equiped with snow plows. These are either the Russell snow plow or the rotary type. For the rotary type, it is necessary to have a well trained, well qualified crew capable of judging the speed of the operation which is directly related to the depth of the snow on the track, and of directing diverse maneuvers for grade crossing and tunnel operations. To relieve the necessity for such a high degree of operational skill on the part of the crew by partially automating the control of these rotary snow plows, an experiment has been conducted in JNR and promising results were obtained. These are summarized in this article.

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  Japan Railway Engineers' Association

  2-5-18 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku
  Tokyo,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Nagase, K
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: p. 18-19
• Serial:
  • Japanese Railway Engineering
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Japan Railway Engineers' Association
  • ISSN: 0448-8938

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automation; Cold weather; Diesel locomotives; Operations; Snow removal; Snowplows
• Identifier Terms: Nihon kokuyu tetsudo
• Old TRIS Terms: Russel snow plow
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00172937
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Japanese Railway Engineering
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 1978 12:00AM