...A general term for railroad cars that can carry passengers or luggage and move on their own, excluding electric trains, and broadly including control cars and trailer cars that do not have a power unit that run in conjunction with them. There are steam railcars that use steam engines as their prime movers, gasoline railcars that use gasoline engines, gas railcars that use gasoline engines but also use charcoal gas as fuel, diesel railcars (diesel cars) that use diesel engines, and gas turbine railcars that use gas turbines. Of these, all but steam railcars are sometimes collectively called internal combustion railcars. There are also three types of power transmission methods to the wheels: mechanical, which drives the wheels via a clutch and gears, electric, which uses a generator driven by the prime mover to turn an electric motor and drive the wheels via a reduction gear, and hydraulic, which drives the wheels via a fluid transmission. *Some of the terminology that refers to "gas railcars" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…旅客あるいは荷物を積んで自走できる鉄道車両のうち電車を除いたものの総称で,広くはこれらと連結して走行する動力装置をもたない制御車および付随車も含める。原動機に蒸気機関を用いる蒸気動車,ガソリンエンジンを用いるガソリン動車,ガソリンエンジンを用いるが燃料には木炭ガスなどを利用するガス動車,ディーゼルエンジンを用いるディーゼル動車(ディーゼルカー)およびガスタービンを用いるガスタービン動車があり,このうち蒸気動車以外を内燃動車と総称することもある。また車輪への動力伝達方式には,クラッチと歯車を介して車輪を駆動する機械式,原動機で発電機を運転し,これによって得られる電気で電動機を回し減速歯車を介して車輪を駆動する電気式,流体変速装置を介して車輪を駆動する液体式の3種類がある。… ※「ガス動車」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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