General Electric Company

Soban Jalil

Mikhail Meltser

Timothy John Medema

Carl S Iszkula

Leroy Learn

A convertible system is provided for controlling automatic starts and automatic stops of a locomotive engine. The convertible system is switchable between a yard mode and a road mode based upon respectively using the locomotive in one of a yard region and road region. The convertible system includes a pressure sensor to sense pressure supplied to a brake system. More particularly, the convertible system includes a microprocessor coupled to the pressure sensor. The microprocessor causes one of an automatic start and automatic stop by sending a respective start up signal or a shut down signal to the locomotive engine, based on comparing the pressure supplied to the brake system with a stored pressure threshold for each of the yard mode and road mode.

System, method and computer readable media for controlling automatic starts and automatic stops of a locomotive engine

A safety system for a walkway of a locomotive. The safety system includes an operator cabin adjacent to a front end of the locomotive, and a walkway extending from the operator cabin along a first side of the locomotive to facilitate a locomotive operator performing regular maintenance. More particularly, the safety system includes a resistive grid exhaust in a sidewall of the first side of the locomotive for directing hot air along a path from a resistive grid within the sidewall to external the locomotive during a self-load mode of the locomotive. A barrier bar is positioned adjacent to the base of the resistive grid exhaust, and is extendable to an extended position over the walkway during the self-load mode to prevent the operator from walking into the path of the hot air from the resistive grid exhaust. Upon the barrier bar retracting from the extended position over the walkway, the locomotive switches out of the self-mode into a normal mode to shut off the supply of the hot air from the resistive grid through the resistive grid exhaust to permit the operator to safely walk in front of the resistive grid exhaust.

Growing community of inventors

Erie, PA, United States of America

Soban Jalil