Gas-turbine locomotive
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A gas-turbine locomotive is a type of railway locomotive powered by a gas-turbine engine, using either hydraulic, mechanical or electrical transmission. The term has also been applied to a small numbe
UP 18, a gas-turbine–electric locomotive preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum
Diagram of a gas-turbine–electric locomotive
1942 publicity photo of Am 4/6 number 1101
British Rail APT-E, Derby, UK, 1972
JetTrain
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The JetTrain was an experimental high-speed passenger train concept created by Bombardier Transportation in an attempt to make European-style high-speed service more financially appealing to passenger
Gas-turbine locomotive
…Corridor where electrification was not economical. 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…
Bombardier’s experimental JetTrain locomotive toured North America in an early-2000s attempt to raise the technology's public profile.
Controls of the JetTrain