The locomotive you insisted was a hybrid is not one of those, you dishonest old goat.Hybrid train - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For combined steam and diesel locomotives, see Steam diesel hybrid locomotive.
A hybrid train is a locomotive, railcar or train that uses an onboard rechargeable energy storage system (RESS), placed between the power source (often a diesel engine prime mover) and the traction transmission system connected to the wheels.
Surplus energy from the power source, or energy derived from regenerative braking, charges the storage system. During acceleration, stored energy is directed to the transmission system, boosting that available from the main power source. In existing designs, the storage system can be electric traction batteries, or a flywheel. The energy source is diesel, liquified petroleum gas, or hydrogen (for fuel cells) and transmission is direct mechanical, electric or hydrostatic.
Diesel electric locomotives have high potential for energy savings when using dynamic braking, which use the traction motors as generators to stop the train. Without a way to recover and store the braking energy, these engines currently have no option other than to dump it into the sky as heat, using large electric heating elements and high velocity cooling fans.
GE AC6000CW locomotives are among the most powerful in the world, however, of the 6250 horsepower, only 1,000 is derived from the electric motors. AC motors simply provide more traction than similar DC engines. Fuel tanks are about 3,000 gallons. People like Old Rocks think that the electric engine drives the diesel engine thus moving the train. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Old Rocks thinks the fuel tanks are filled with electricity = absurd, of course..