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Originally Posted by UFO
No, it doesn't. A "diesel electric train locomotive" has ONE power source. Diesel. It cannot generate electricity without it, there is no storage mechanism. The electric motor is a robust torque converter, that is all it does.
A locomotive CANNOT.
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I see this statement used often, in any event I cannot believe that a hydred is required to store energy to be one; the locamotive is using 2 different types of energy in series and is therefore a series hydred, this term was used long before hydred meant anything in the automotive world. Also just because the power is generated and used onboard without being stored has nothing to do with the hybrid monkier.
Also on that same regard some of the very old diesel locomotives DID INDEED use large edison batteries as a buffer to handle the initial surge during take off and to provide braking action as they did not overheat. Which means by your own definition many trains would quality as a battery serial hybred
Cheers
Ryan