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Why start 2 forums about the same topic? I have no idea if any company makes a model of this, I checked in my copy of The Great Book of Trains, the only Briti***urbine listed was the Turbomotive built in 1935 it was a regular 4-6-2 Pacific with the left piston replaced with a multi stage Metropolitan-Vickers turbine of about 2,000 HP. It drove the leading axle through a three-stage gear train totally enclosed in an oil bath. This gave it a reduction ratio of 34:1, meaning that at 70mph the turbine would turn at 10,000rpm. It turned out to be more efficient than a standard loco, but it did not catch on and was rebuilt in 1951 to a normal pacific and named the Princess Anne, after running for 300,000 miles. This may not have been the kind of turbine you were thinking of as it was a stem turbine unlike the one in you picture or those built by the UP. <br />James[C):-)]
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