Trains accelerate incredibly slowly and often have a single gear that is optimised for high speed. Similar to trying to pull away in your car in too high of a gear this makes trains really slow and takes along time for them to hit their high speed.
Most cars will often have 4 (for very old cars) – 6 gears to keep acceleration smooth and fast whilst still being efficient at high speed but trains don’t.
I get that electric motors have all of the torque available at low RPMs whilst ICE only have full power at a high rpm but wouldn’t gears still allow trains to get to higher speeds quicker?
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it has less to do with not having the power and more about respectin g the limitations of the equipement so that they last longer and are more confortable for the cargo.
when you start moving on a train, only the locomotive has any actual propulsion that is used ot start pulling on othe other cars as it pick up the slack. this causes some stress and the frames ot expand slightly causing a bakc and forth motion. this can be minizined if the conductor slowly increases/decreases speed which in turn makes htis motion less noticeable and causes less wear and tear on the equipement.
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