Japanese Railway Introduces Hybrid Train

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/ ... 9958.shtml
Japanese railway company will put the world's first environmentally friendly hybrid train into commercial service later this month, a move designed to help curb global warming, a company official said Thursday.
( link copied from one provided by Block SS in the Amtrak forum )

the hybrid train on you tube !
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=0hXgv6D8zXo
and a railway gazette article on it
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... rvice.html
and a very good description of how regenerative braking systems can work with battery systems .
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... nergy.html

A link to the GE hybrid provided by John Perkowski in the antrak forum .
http://www.getransportation.com/na/en/hybrid.html

David,

You beat me to the news on a bit about the Japanese Railways?!?!

Touche.


Here's a link to a post I contributed about three years ago about the Hybrid development (and also the freight EMUs they were developing).

http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7018


And for those who want to just jump to the bit about the Hybrid (then still in development) here ya go (NOTE: It's a PDF form)...

http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr36/pdf/photo.pdf


Good to see it's finally in service, I just wish I could have been there for one of the innaugural runs.