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

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Google finds a number of URLs for the combination of
"union pacific" and "big blow".  There must be a lot
of people that have heard of it.  If you put in the
second one by itself, you're on your own.

Steve

--- Greg Hermann <bearbvd@domain.elided> wrote:

> 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!)