ECP Locomotive Maintenance

Target cohort

Locomotive maintainers, supervisors and reliability staff maintaining ECP brake equipment.

Course Overview

The course covers the principals and functions of ECP and its relationship with train brake operational criteria. This is important to understand the programmed behavior of ECP and fault diagnosis and repair as well as maintenance and inspection criticality. The course also looks at ECP component functions and its relationship with other locomotive control systems.

Course duration

The course duration in normally 2 days. This can be extended for ECP train testing.

Costs

Course costs will be based per the booked course and number of participants after requirements are finalised. Nominal cost for this course is about $5000 plus expenses.

Performance criteria/outcome

Introductions, safety and course process, course structure and activities

1 Introduction to ECP

1.1 Introduction to ECP

1.2 ECP function overview

2 Locomotive ECP operator controls and components

2.1 Locomotive controls and components

2.2 Trainline power and communication

2.3 Trainline components

3 ECP operation modes

3.1 ECP set up and exit

3.2 ECP power, status and logs (theory and practice)

4 ECP monitoring screens used for fault diagnostics

4.1 Monitoring screens

4.2 Fault diagnosis information

5 Locomotive overview and components

5.1 Locomotive trainline and control cabling overview

5.2 ECP power

5.3 Locomotive trainline

5.4 Control and communication cabling

5.5 Comms connection details

5.6 Cable identification

7 Locomotive trainline testing

8 Locomotive ECP control cable testing

9 Fault finding basic process – use of diagnostic screen