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In 1954 there were plans to build an atomic locomotive, but it never got beyond the drawing board. The proposed locomotive would look something like an A and B unit permantley coupled together with the "A unit" riding on three 3-axle trucks and the "B unit" riding on one 3-axle and one 2-axle truck. The whole thing would have been 160 feet long and weighed 396 tons with a maximum power of 12 000hp. There were great precautions taken against radioactive emissions and there were some sort of safety devices that stopped the reaction process in case of a derailment. The project was abandoned, though, for obvious reasons, plus you could have bought 4 diesel locomotives of equal power for half the price it would have cost to build the thing.
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