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    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...
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    The Union Pacific GTELs were a series of gas turbine-electric locomotives built by Alco-GE and General Electric between 1952-1961 and operated by Union...
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    locomotives were built in USSR by Kharkov Locomotive Works. Gas turbine-electric locomotives, use a gas turbine to drive an electrical generator or alternator...
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    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...
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    required. Turbine–electric transmissions are used to drive both gas turbine locomotives (rarely) and warships. A handful of experimental locomotives from the...
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    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...
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    tampers and rail grinders. A gas turbine locomotive is an internal combustion engine locomotive consisting of a gas turbine. ICE engines require a transmission...
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  • 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...
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    prototype mainline gas turbine-electric locomotive built for British Railways in 1949 by Brown, Boveri & Cie. An earlier gas-turbine locomotive, 18100, had been...
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    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...
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