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GT3 at Leicester ..1961
British Rail GT3 gas turbine locomotive at Leicester in 1961

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 developed. Some have had mechanical transmission. Others have had electric transmission.

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  • Gas turbine locomotive 1149

    A 44-ton 1-B-1 experimental gas turbine locomotive designed by R. Tom Sawyer and built in 1952 for testing by the U.S. Army Transportation Corps

  • Union Pacific 18

    UP 18, a gas turbine-electric locomotive preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum

  • Pescara avec turbine

    Diagram of a free-piston engine as a gas generator for a gas turbine

  • Alco-GE Union Pacific Gas turbine locomotive diagram

    Diagram of a gas turbine-electric locomotive

  • SBB Am 4-6

    1942 publicity photo of Am 4/6 number 1101

  • ATP-E IN YARD

    British Rail APT-E, Derby, UK, 1972

  • Union Pacific first generation GTEL locomotive 1953

    First generation GTEL and a 1923 electric auto in Fremont, Nebraska in 1953

  • LAST MINUTE CHECK OF THE ENGINE OF THE AMTRAK TURBOLINER PASSENGER TRAIN IS MADE BEFORE DEPARTURE FROM ST. LOUIS... - NARA - 556059

    An RTG Turboliner at Union Station, St. Louis, in the 1970s

  • Bombardier JetTrain

    Bombardier's experimental JetTrain locomotive toured North America in an attempt to raise the technology's public profile in the early 2000s.

  • ГТ1h-002 (cropped)

    GT1h-002

  • UAC Turbo train at Kingston

    The Turbo Train at Kingston, Ontario, Canada

  • RTG Houlgate - Digue de la Rue des Bains 1989

    SNCF's Turbotrain in Houlgate, on the Deauville–Dives railway line, 1989

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