However, most DMUs also have electric motors, as most diesel trains have diesel-electric transmission.3 day wrote:WHAT!EMU stands for Electric Multiple Unit and is similar to a Diesel Multiple Unit but with electric motors instead of diesel engines
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I'm not sure that a tranmission would really count when naming... the actual engine is a diesel, so that would make it a dmu. Logically.hertogjan wrote:However, most DMUs also have electric motors, as most diesel trains have diesel-electric transmission.3 day wrote:WHAT!
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EMU is an
ELECTRICALY POWERED as in its power comes from electrical soure , external or batteries
MULTIPLE UNITS as in more than one car per single train ... they can be powercars or trailers
from metro cars to TGV/ICe all are EMU
As a sidenote ... FEVE (spain) has some EMU's with hidrawlic transmission and FIAT pendolinos have mechanical transmission (the electric motors are under the frame)
ELECTRICALY POWERED as in its power comes from electrical soure , external or batteries
MULTIPLE UNITS as in more than one car per single train ... they can be powercars or trailers
from metro cars to TGV/ICe all are EMU
As a sidenote ... FEVE (spain) has some EMU's with hidrawlic transmission and FIAT pendolinos have mechanical transmission (the electric motors are under the frame)
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