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Old 02-14-2014, 12:23 PM   #10 (permalink)
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At one time around the late 1970's, the Union Pacific Railroad spent big bucks on an experimental coal fired turbine locomotive. The logistics of grinding up the coal was overcome but the fly ash and the turbine blades did not play well together. With no easy fix in the forecast, a good idea was finally sold for scrap.

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