Union Pacific gas turbine cutaway drawing

By | April 23, 2010

Between 1958 and 1961, General Electric built 30 giant gas-turbine-electric locomotives for Union Pacific. The two-unit monsters were originally rated at 8,500 h.p., but several were upgraded to 10,000 h.p. The last ones ran in late 1969.

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