Indian Railways rolls out 4500 HP Diesel Electric Locomotive equipped with the latest Siemens technology

摘要

Indian Railways has successfully rolled out the new 4500 HP Diesel Electric Locomotive, which is futuristic, modern and equipped with the most advance traction system as well as locomotive control system in India, supplied by Siemens. Incidentally, this is India's 200th 1GBT based diesel locomotive. The Indian Railways first introduced its diesel-electric freight / passenger locomotives (4000 HP) with three-phase AC traction technology in 1999 and has been continuously upgrading the existing locomotives. Siemens has been supplying the traction equipment for these locomotives ever since, which was upgraded to latest IGBT technology in 2006, making Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) the first unit to introduce IGBT technology on IR locomotives.