Turbines, turbines, turbines.

[TrainFreak409]

Okay y'all, take your pick.

As a victim of TURBINE FEVER, I chose "All of the Above."

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[ragnar]

I'd really like any information on a experimental turbine unit that the Great Northern tried back in the mid-late 40s. Believe it was built by Westinghouse but wasn't successful .Therefor the project was scrapped.
Found one rather poor quality picture of it in the Great Northern Railway by Don Wood years back..

[TrainFreak409]

I know what that was. Great Northern used the two UP Steamotives starting in the early 40s due to a power shortage. They were loaned out as GE 1 and 2. NYC also used them as a loan, until they were scrapped.

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[passengerfan]

To bad for anyone who didn't get to see and hear the Turbines operating. Being a frequent traveler on US 30 during the last few years of the Turbine era on UP. I know first hand the sound they made and shear brute power they exerted at the head of an eastbound fruitblock crossing Wyoming. The last time I saw any of the turbines were those being scrapped for their trucks and other components at GE Erie. Today one sits in Ogden Station restored but inoperative still a sight to see. remember watching one departing Cheyenne one day going west and when it passed under the overpass their must have been a dozen Pigeons fall out of the girder work instantly cooked.

[trolleyboy]

I never been a big turbine fan but the C&O experiment always intrigued me. Rob

[Anonymous]

UP sometimes double-headed a turbine with a Big Boy. I would've liked to have seen that. The Veranda's were my favorites. Illinois Railway Musem has Big Blow # 18.

http://www.irm.org/cgi-bin/rsearch.cgi?diesel=Union+Pacific+Railroad=18

[Anonymous]

the Union Pacific's 3 unit 8500 hp turbines were so awesome!!!!!!!!!

[espeefoamer]

I voted for the UP Big Blow,because they were the only turbine locomotives I ever saw[:)].

[markn]

You just have to love "Jawn Henry" (and the C&O M1) just because they were soooo big!