RE: [ihc] no IH content, but fun--

[bearbvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Hermann)]

At 11:59 PM 10/25/04, John M. Adams wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Greg Hermann [mailto:bearbvd@domain.elided]
>> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:28 PM
>> To: Steven Stegmann; jma@domain.elided; ihc@domain.elided
>> Subject: RE: [ihc] no IH content, but fun--
>>
>>
>> But the MOST interesting UP thing I ever saw was, I _THINK_
>> (never was able
>> to chase down the details) was what appeared to be a combined cycle gas
>> turbine unit !!! Think it had to be a gas turbine electric top
>> cycle with a
>> RECIP STEAM bottoming cycle !!!!!! This was in '92, saw it taking a long
>> freight down 'the ramp' in western Nebraska. My guess would be a big two
>> shaft turbine--fan jet sort of affair--taking power off the shaft to make
>> power for traction motors on the tender, and on the leading and trailing
>> trucks, using the fan to pull air over a steam condenser (yep, it appeared
>> to be a closed steam cycle, only a wisp of dark exhaust smoke
>> from it), and
>> then take the turbine exhaust through a fire tube boiler (with perhaps a
>> bit of afterburn using the excess O2 in the exhaust stream--to run the
>> pretty convention steam drivers !!!
>>
>
>Could that have been an experimental / prototype unit?

Had to have been.

 From what I see on
>the various train forums (steam lovers in particular), the combined cycle
>tech for locos is *just now* being reintroduced (with gas instead of oil -
>which faded out in the 70s). I didn't think anyone was running them yet, but
>you're talking about 12 years ago!

Well--yeah. It was definitely running. !!
>
>Got any pictures!? ;)

Nope.

Greg
>
>John A.
>
>IH / RR content: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=11949
>(OK, sorta... but cool picture!)