I'll have to take your word for that since "[the] course of events in [my] life led [me] to not understanding how batteries work".
I do note however, that the steam turbine locomotive failed to compete with the diesel-electric serial hybrid.
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Steam turbine locomotive
A steam turbine locomotive is a steam locomotive which transmits steam power to the wheels via a steam turbine. Numerous attempts at this type of locomotive were made, mostly without success. In the 1930s this type of locomotive was seen as a way both to revitalize steam power and challenge the diesel locomotives then being introduced.
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