Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Electric Co.'s Erie works this week, railroad men will get their first good look at a new locomotive. It resembles a diesel on the outside, but is radically different on the inside. The engine, developed over a five-year period by G.E. and American Locomotive Co., is a gas turbine-electric locomotive, the first of its kind in the U.S. It was ready for test runs on the Union Pacific Railroad...
Although still in the development stage and costly to operate, the new locomotive puts out twice as much horsepower as a diesel of comparable size. G.E. and Alco hope to develop a gas turbine-electric unit that can run economically on coal, and will need overhauling only after 15,000 hours of operation (three times as long as present-day diesels). G.E. and Alco think that someday the gas turbine-electric engine may replace the diesel...
...Louis one day last week glided a diesel-powered Burlington train with a cargo of bigwigs from the coal, oil and auto industries and the Department of the Interior. The big diesel was burning oil made from coal-the first time in U.S. railroading that a train has ever run on synthetic fuel...
Soggy Pancakes. About 475 miles from Honolulu the Diesel gave up altogether, and at that point passengers discovered that one of the two lifeboats was loaded with cases of soda pop. The other had a hole in it. The passengers prayed; Captain E. M. Nicol radioed the U.S. Coast Guard. Almost five days later, the Pasado was towed into Honolulu. As she approached the harbor the stove blew up and splashed its soggy batch of pancakes against the overhead...
Swearing Off. To christen a new 4,000-h.p. diesel-electric locomotive in Cleveland last week, the Erie Railroad used, instead of champagne, a bottle of locomotive smoke. The Erie thus marked the complete conversion from steam to diesels on its Cleveland passenger runs...