Steam Turbine locos

Post all your discussion on steam turbine locos here. I'll give you some examples:

The Belluzzo 0-2-2-0T Turbine of 1907 (the first turbine ever built.)

The Swiss Zoelly 4-6-0 (3/5) Turbine of 1919

The Reid-Ramsey 4-4-0+4-4-0 Turbine of 1910

The Reid-McLeod 4-4-0+4-4-0 Turbine (rebuilt from the Reid Ramsey.)

The Beyer-Ljungstrom 10-6-4 Turbine of 1926

The LMS "Turbomotive" 4-6-2 of 1936

The Swedish-Argentine 10-8-2 Turbine of 1925

The Armstrong-Whitworth 2-6-6-2 Turbine of 1922

The Swedish TGOJ 2-8-0 Turbines of 1932 (Two are preserved in working order, this is one of them. )
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The Nord 4-6-4 Turbine of 1938

The Krupp-Zoelly 4-6-2 turbine T18-1001 of 1928

The Maffei 4-6-2 Turbine T18-1002 of 1928

The PRR S2 6-8-6 Turbine of 1944

The C&O 4-6-2+4-6-2+0-4-0 Turbines (more commonly denoted 2-C1-2-C1-B or 2-Co-1-2-Co-1-Bo)
EDIT: there were more turbine locos than the ones listed here. For most of the known steam turbine locos refer to this site: http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm
or here: http://www.skyrocket.de/locomotive/

Is anyone going to post here? Please don't let my thread be deleted.

They do look a little wierd. And I don't even know how they lived and if they lived that long.

to answer your question, not very long.
Turbines were very costly, and very expensive to run.
For Example, the PRR S2 6-8-6, would eat up about a complete tenders load of coal, moving just from the engine-house to the train, a yards length away. also, it was quite a bear on those old things too.
i read a saying once in a book i bought about the steam turbines.
"on a normal locomotive, it takes three minutes to find the problem, three days to fix it. on a turbine, it takes thee days to find the problem, three minutes to fix it."
So, Turbines were Railroad's last try to keep steam live and strong, but the eventual diesel, whom could make just as much power, without the need of all this new-fangled eqiupment, put the big 6-8-6's out of service very quickly.
Cheers,
Sean

man you are just a well of information aren't ya? but hey, that pretty cool to know.

campbell5149 said:

man you are just a well of information aren't ya? but hey, that pretty cool to know.

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He scares me some times. I think he's a supercomputer posing as a human:hehe: