Locomotive warping winch

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Electric locomotive warping winch in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum

A locomotive warping winch is a technical device for moving parked locomotives .

These can be defective diesel locomotives or electric locomotives , but also steam locomotives that are parked cold. The winches were especially important for the latter, as it takes several hours to heat up a steam locomotive . Therefore Lokomotiv delay winds were in almost all steam locomotive railway depots to find. They were mostly driven electrically. Via pulleys, tracks could also be operated that were not at the actual location of the winch.

literature

  • Walter Weikelt / Manfred Teufel: The technology of repairing steam locomotives , transpress publishing house, ISBN 3-613-71256-3
  • Harald Vogelsang: The vehicles and systems of the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum . 12th edition, DGEG, Werl 2002. ISBN 3-921700-99-X