Steam turbine-powered locomotives never really caught on. Similar to gas turbine engines, steam turbines are efficient at certain rpm, and extremely inefficient at many others. At high speeds ...

Following the Stourbridge Lion, the States’ first steam locomotive ... and historical reenactments have dropped coal in favor of electric, gasoline turbine or diesel power—sometimes, a ...

The saga ends with an experimental coal-burning turbine locomotive built by Union Pacific itself in 1962.

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI — A locomotive that played a critical part of an Ottawa County coal power plant that’s closing is one of the pieces of the plant finding new life. For decades, a yellow ...

One of those pieces of the power plant finding new life is a 125-ton General Electric diesel locomotive engine built in 1979. For decades, the big yellow engine has pulled coal around the power ...