37. Cocodril locomotive

Victor, did you know that us girls started to drive diesel and electric locomotives not so long ago? Before, women weren’t allowed to work on the trains, but now there are quite a few drivers and soon there will be more. They say it’s really a really cool job. The Crocodile is a very characteristic electric locomotive. It doesn’t work with steam, but electricity, like most modern trains.

Yes, steam locomotives stopped being used because they needed lots of water and coal to make them work. A locomotive could use as much as 10,000 kilos of coal in just one day!

And they caused a lot of pollution. Electric locomotives generate a lot less. They make less noise than the steam ones and are much faster... The electricity that moves them circulates through cables that they are suspended in the air and enter the train by a kind of roof antenna called a... panto... pan-to-gra... PANTOGRAPH! Then, a large part of the electricity used by the trains is returned to the electrical grid through these cables. Can you see why trains make the least pollution?

Now we’re going to the back part of the Crocodile and we can walk alongside a track without cables.