Locomotive winch

Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum

A locomotive winch is a technical device for moving stabled railway

locomotives

.

These could be broken down

Bahnbetriebswerk). They were usually electrically operated. Using pulleys, they could be used to pull locomotives on tracks other than the one on which they were installed.^[1]

References

^ Aus dem Lokschuppen - 'From the engine shed' article on the website of the Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum Archived 2008-03-04 at the Wayback Machine

Literature

Walter Weikelt / Manfred Teufel: Die Technologie der Ausbesserung der Dampflokomotiven, transpress Verlag,
ISBN 3-613-71256-3

References

Literature

See also