Talk:Lokomotiven mit Stangenantrieb
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Rename to Electric locomotives with coupling rods
[edit]Or German language equivalent, as at present.
The reason is that this gallery is entirely composed of electric locomotives (with coupling rods). This is an interesting group, as the technique of coupling rods is now obsolete for them. "Locomotives with coupling rods" would imply that steam locomotives could be included too, which is clearly not the intention.
Diesel locomotives with coupling rods are rather more common than electric. Whilst also interesting, they would best be galleried separately as Diesel locomotives with coupling rods.
Andy Dingley (talk) 10:50, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- Not all locomotives in this gallery are electric locomotives. Wehrmachtslokomotive WR 200 B 14 is a steam locomotive, ÖBB 2095 a Diesel locomotive. --DF5GO (talk) 12:21, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- The two examples you give both appear to be diesels.
- This gallery should exclude steam locomotives. There is no value to a gallery page of "Steam locomotives with coupling rods", they are too commonplace.
- We might have a category of "electric or diesel locomotives with coupling rods". These are rare, so they are interesting. However I think that it's more valuable to have this as two categories, as above. The reason is that the technical reasons why diesel and electric locomotives use coupling rods are different. Their use in electric locomotives is generally related to the early use of single large-diameter AC motors that were too big to mount on each axle. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:01, 23 April 2012 (UTC)