What Called a Mining Locomotive?

The mining locomotive is a common transportation equipment that applied in mine ground or underground. It can be used as a main or an auxiliary transportation tool accroding to the different size of the tunnels. It is mostly used for the transportation of ore, materials and manpower where the track is laid. And it usually used in conjunction with equipment such as mine carts, flatbed trucks and people’s vehicles.

While the mining locomotive have 3 types: battery locomotives, trolley wire locomotive and dual power electric locomotive(that is a combination of battery and trolley).  Please follow me and know their difference.

1. Mining Battery Locomotive, as know it used lead acid battery or lithium battery for its power supply, it have the advantages of flexible, no electricity requires, it also with the function of explosion-proof, so it can be used in the coal mines or the place with gas. The traction force can be from 25 ton to 120 ton, but it only suitable for a short distance transportation.