Single-axle car slide

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Single-axle car gate valve from ILO

The single-axle car pusher is a device for shunting individual freight cars . It was developed to make maneuvering work more efficient in companies with low volumes of vehicles to be maneuvered . In this way, individual railway cars could be moved with little effort without the use of locomotives . The single-axle car slide has a relatively weak motor (approx. 4 kW) and is pressed between the underside of the car and the rail . This creates the axle pressure required by the single-axle carriage slide on the rail to move the carriage.

A copy from the company ILO-Motorenwerke from Pinneberg can be viewed as an exhibit in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum . Further examples are exhibited in the Bavarian Railway Museum in Nördlingen , the Speyer Technology Museum and the Neustadt / Weinstraße Railway Museum.

literature

  • Harald Vogelsang: The vehicles and systems of the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum , ISBN 3-921700-99-X