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unusual facts about Gas turbine-electric locomotive


Gas turbine-electric locomotive

Bombardier Ltd, at the Plattsburg, N.Y. plant where the Acela was produced, developed a prototype (JetTrain) which combined a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 gas turbine and a diesel engine with a single gearbox powering four traction motors identical to those in Acela.


1953 Pennsylvania Railroad train wreck

When the train arrived in New Haven, PRR GG1 No. 4876, an electric locomotive, was coupled on, along with several passenger cars from Springfield.

Brush Electrical Machines

Brush Electrical Machines is a manufacturer of large generators for gas turbine and steam turbine drive applications, based at Loughborough in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

Dresser-Rand Group

In 1985, Dresser Industries furthered their reach in the energy conversion and power generation market with the acquisition of a 50% share of the Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk gas turbine division, the producer of the KG2, the world's first radial gas turbine.

EP10

The EP10 (ЭП10) is a type of dual voltage six axle electric locomotive built for RZD by NEVZ in association with Adtranz/Bombardier for passenger use.

Ernest Hives, 1st Baron Hives

In 1941 Hives quickly decided ‘to go all out for the gas turbine’, ensuring the company’s leading role in developing jet engines for civil and military aviation.

Glanford Brigg Power Station

Glanford Brigg power station is a natural gas fuelled, combined cycle gas turbine power station with four gas turbines, four Stein Industrie heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs), and two 40 MW GEC Alsthom steam turbines, divided into two modules.

Goose Creek Township, Piatt County, Illinois

Ameren's Goose Creek Energy Center, a combustion turbine generator (CTG) power plant, is located in Goose Creek Township.

Kurt Schreckling

His design was constructed using hand tools, and has a wooden compressor and a bent metal gas turbine.

Railway electrification in the Soviet Union

The original fleet of eight electric locomotives was imported from the United States and were made by General Electric (GE).

Rolls-Royce Exe

The Exe was named after the River Exe, although Rolls-Royce later transferred the using of river names to its gas turbine engines.

Venedikt Yerofeyev

It is an account of a journey from Moscow to Petushki (Vladimir Oblast) by electric train, one of many futile attempts to visit his small daughter: each time such a journey becomes soaked in alcohol and fails.


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