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Rudolf Diesel's first experiments were with vegetable oil not petroleum. The engines worked just fine. The latest effort towards corn and soy-based fuels is just history repeating itself. The UP ran a coal-fired, one-of-a-kind locomotive in the 1960s (?). The 80 (later 8080). There's even an O-scale model of it at my local hobby shop. The locomotive was in three parts. The front was an Alco converted for the project. It's primary, albeit not only, function was to provide the controls. The center section was a converted GN electric chassis (similar to the Little Joes). It housed the actual turbine and generator. The third unit contained the coal crushing/"liquification" hardware. It looked like a diesel, even a lot like the gas turbines, but it wasn't. C&O had a coal-fired turbine, too. I think they built several, maybe as many as four. I read that the clinkers just ate these various experiments to pieces. Hank Morris
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