Gas turbine locomotive

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1953
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 140 KB
• Volume: 255
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(53)90806-0

✦ Synopsis

Gas Turbine Locomotive.--A gas turbine locomotive with wheels that not only turn to negotiate curves but also move from side to side under the cab for smoother riding, was reported in New York City, N. Y., recently by engineers of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

The experimental locomotive, which has completed more than 60,000 miles of operation on six railroads, was described in a paper presented before the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by Charles Kerr, Jr., consulting transportation engineer for Westinghouse at East Pittsburgh, Pa. Co-authors of the paper are T. J. Putz, manager of