A gas turbine locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a gas turbine. Several types of gas turbine locomotive have been...

The Union Pacific GTELs were a series of gas turbine–electric locomotives built by Alco-GE and General Electric from 1952 to 1961 and operated by Union...

GT3 (Gas Turbine 3) was a prototype mainline gas turbine locomotive built in 1961 by English Electric at its Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows to investigate...

required. Turbine–electric transmissions are used to drive both gas turbine locomotives (rarely) and warships. A handful of experimental locomotives from the...

prototype mainline gas turbine–electric locomotive built for British Railways in 1949 by Brown, Boveri & Cie. An earlier gas-turbine locomotive, 18100, had been...

Turbine locomotive may refer to: Gas turbine locomotive, uses a gas turbine as a power source and drives the wheels via a mechanical transmission Gas...

tampers and rail grinders. A gas turbine locomotive is an internal combustion engine locomotive consisting of a gas turbine. ICE engines require a transmission...

A steam turbine locomotive was a steam locomotive which transmitted steam power to the wheels via a steam turbine. Numerous attempts at this type of locomotive...

British Rail 18100 was a prototype main line gas turbine–electric locomotive built for British Railways in 1951 by Metropolitan-Vickers, Manchester. It...

conventional locomotive. A combined cycle powered locomotive is a patented idea to use two primary movers, a gas turbine with a steam turbine to gain the...

locomotives, with a top speed of 160 km/h intended for operations on express trains. The locomotives were peculiar in that an additional gas turbine engine...

gas turbine B-unit Rebuilds: experimental coal gas turbine B–unit from W-1 electric locomotive for joint operation with ALCO PA-1 diesel locomotive In...

A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the...

This article lists every locomotive allocated a TOPS classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas turbine, petrol) stock used on the...

the inventor of the first successful gas turbine locomotive. He also assisted in development of the diesel locomotive while he worked for General Electric...

apart from E2001 (the prototype AC locomotive, converted from a gas turbine locomotive, later Class 80), all AC locomotives were numbered from E3001 upwards...

world's first gas turbine–electric locomotive. The locomotive was ordered by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) from the Swiss Locomotive and Machine...

been tried, some more successful than others. In the mid 1900s, gas turbine locomotives were developed and successfully used, though most were retired...

the demonstration turbine locomotive was stored at the Transportation Technology Center. Gas turbine–electric locomotive Gas turbine train LRC (train)...

free-turbine turboshaft is a form of turboshaft or turboprop gas turbine engine where the power is extracted from the exhaust stream of a gas turbine by...

PC3 - Lab 8 - PC4 Advanced Passenger Train British Rail Class 370 Gas turbine locomotive Williams 1985, p. 480 "Railway voices: Interview with Dr Alan Wicken"...

electricity the most common type is called a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant, which is a kind of gas-fired power plant. The same principle is also used...

000 hp (3,000 kW) gas turbine locomotive, numbered 4000, known as the "Blue Goose", with a B-B-B-B wheel arrangement. The locomotive used two 2,000 hp...

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The TGV 001 (Train à Grande Vitesse 001) was an experimental gas turbine-powered TGV prototype built by Alstom in France. Commissioned in 1969, began...

powered by turbojet engines. Like a jet aircraft, but unlike a gas turbine locomotive, the train is propelled by the jet thrust of the engines, rather...

diesel locomotives and also of steam shovels. Other products included cars, steam locomotives and a range of internal combustion engines, and later gas turbines...

family, with an additional gas turbine booster engine. It can be considered the prototype for diesel locomotives with a gas turbine as an additional drive;...

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Ludwigshafen in July 1974. From 1975, a mixed operation with diesel and gas turbine power heads was made possible. During test runs in April 1975, a train...