Abstract: THE ELECTRIC transmission equipment used on the three turbine-electric locomotives placed in service in 1948 by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company is similar in many respects to that ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics. The new idea here ...

RUSSIAN Railways’ (RZD) GT1h-002 prototype liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuelled turbine-electric locomotive has completed a series of test runs on the Surgut - Korotchaevo line in western Siberia ...

0. would diesel-ize, a Young aide snapped: “Never, I hope.” With his new coal-burning steam turbine “500” locomotive, now touring the country, Bob Young hopes to prove that he has ...

Abstract: THE ALCO-GE gas-turbine electric locomotive, shown in Figure 1, is designed for freight service. It is an 8-axle 8-motor B-B-B-B locomotive weighing 253 tons (average) and rated at 4,500 ...

RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) and Sinara have agreed to produce and develop mainline natural gas-powered turbine locomotives. Mr Vladimir Yakunin, president of RZD, and Mr Dmitry Pumpyansky, president of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Train Simulator: BR GT3 Turbine Loco Add-On One of the more unusual locomotives ever to be built, the GT3 Gas Turbine Prototype is nevertheless part of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Train Simulator: Union Pacific Gas Turbine-Electric Loco Add-On Take the throttle of Union Pacific's unique and memorable 4,500-horsepower gas-turbine ...