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Westinghouse Baldwin "Blue Goose" Turbine

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Westinghouse Baldwin "Blue Goose" Turbine
Posted by TrainFreak409 on Wednesday, July 7, 2004 1:28 PM
Does anybody know anything about this turbine? Websites, photos, anything? I have seen one phot of this turbine, and that's about it. Information please.

[8]TrainFreak409[8]

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 7, 2004 3:16 PM
This book has a few pages about that one.

Model Railroader Cyclopedia, Volume 2: Diesel Locomotives

the demonstrator was shown around but none were ordered so it was scrapped!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 7, 2004 9:27 PM
Ray George's book Missouri-Kansas-Texas in Color has a couple of color photos of the Blue Goose on the Katy, where it was doing demonstrations with the Katy Flyer.

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Posted by jrbarney on Friday, July 9, 2004 8:29 AM
TrainFreak409,
On a hunch, I did a keyword search at the Index of Magazines using "Blue Goose" as the search term. Here's the one citation that resulted:
"The thrifty glutton," Trains, January 1953, page 25. Westinghouse's gas-turbine-electric ( BLUE, GOOSE, "MORGAN, DAVID P.", TURBINE, WESTINGHOUSE, TRN )
As usual, you'll have to look for a copy of the back issue at your LHS, or pay for a photocopy at customerservice@kalmbach.com or at the NMRA's Kalmbach Memorial Library, http://www.nmra.org/library/.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
"Time flies like an arrow - fruit flies like a banana." "In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria." --German proverb

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