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Here is UP's experiment with a coal turbine. They turned a PA into a control unit and an ex GN W1 electric into a coal fired turbine. If I remember right the unit ran only in the summer of 1962. Here she is in all her glory spewing exhaust and plenty of geeps in the consist in case she failed. The experiment was deemed a failure, and eventually the PA was traded in on SD45's and the power unit was scrapped in 1968.
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