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Show I Railroads experiment On Revolutionary New Locomotive Nine first-class railroads, in. eluding four of the largest systems sys-tems in the country, have joined in research and experiment on a completely new type locomotive that may revolutionize rail transportation. trans-portation. The roads are jointly spending $1,500,000 on what is to be known as a coal-burning steam turbine electric road locomotive. It is expected ex-pected to generate 5,400 horsepower, horse-power, will operate on pulverized coal, and is expected to give increased in-creased speed and traction power at a gain in fuel economy. Roads behind the experiment the the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Baltimer & Ohio, Chesapeake Chesa-peake & Ohio; Reading; Louisville and Nashville; Norfolk and Western; Wes-tern; Virginian, and Illinois Central. |