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Explain U.P.'s Gas Turbine locomotive's operation?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by bigboy4015</i> <br /><br />...In idlemode a turbine "drink" near 1.000 gallons Bunker C in one hour...[/quote] I had read about that and the fact that they used a small internal diesel engine for jostling and the like, and I wondered, what did they do when the turbines had to wait to meet another train? Did they shut them down, or were they so difficult to start back up and get up to operating status before moving on that they just left them running? Or did they always have these engines running on double-track or scheduled so that they rarely had to stop and wait for another train (or didn't have them waiting too long)? <br /> <br />---jps
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