Talk:Distributed power

Driver vs Engineer

I call people who operate railroad locomotives "engineers", but I'm not offended to see the word "driver" in a Wikipedia article. I don't think the terminology of the country of origin of a technology needs to be that of the article itself. (And for that matter, railways were developed in England.) More often, the Wikipedia style used is that of the original crafter of an article, and this particular one followed a convoluted path from one about non-railroad (or should I say "railway"?) applications. In any event, WP:ENGVAR says there should be consistency, so somebody with strong feelings on this should change the other 7 occurrences of "driver". --Casey (talk) 16:09, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Distributed Power and Push-Pull

Would the HST qualify as distributed power - the lead power car controls the rear power car (although not using the systems described in this article)? Also Push-pull is (or has been) widely used in the UK for inter-city services, e.g East Coast, Anglia, formerly WCML, GatEx and E2G services (much more so than suburban services in fact, which tend to be multiple units). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.94.137.1 (talk) 16:33, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Shunting ?

How are double length trains with distributed power amalgamated and divided to suit marshaling yards that are too short to hold the full length trains? Tabletop (talk) 02:40, 19 May 2014 (UTC)