Cheap Athearn HO RTR Veranda Turbine w/Tender, UP #7 ATH88669Athearn HO RTR Veranda Turbine w/Tender, UP #7 ATH88669 Product Description:
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All information is provided to you by Athearn's website. This RTR Veranda Turbine w/Tender features authentic Union Pacific markings with road number 74. It is fully assembled and ready for your HO scale train layout. It is DCC ready with the wiring harness installed. It has two speaker mounting points molded into the underframe to accept speakers up to 1.20" in diameter. It also has the following features: - Five pole skew wound armature motor - 4 inboard axles are powered - Celcon handrails - Cab interior - Razor sharp painting and printing - McHenry scale knuckle spring couplers installed After World War II, GE began work on a locomotive using a gas turbine power plant specifically designed for locomotive usage. The gas turbine had an advantage in that it could burn Bunker "C" fuel oil. Bunker "C" is a thick, low-grade oil that is a left-over when crude oil is refined into higher quality products like gasoline and diesel fuel. Being a residual of the refining process, it was both very cheap and widely available. GE's locomotive gas turbine was about 20 feet long and created 4,500 horsepower, three times as much as a contemporary diesel. GE's test-bed and demonstrator gas turbine locomotive was completed in November 1948. Numbered as UP 50, it spent twenty-one months testing on the UP, covering 105,732 miles of operation and moving 349 million gross ton-miles of freight. UP's first gas turbine, numbered 51 and part of a ten locomotive order, was received at the Omaha shops on January 28, 1952. It had a full car body and a single cab. On the demonstrator and the first six gas turbine locomotives, the air intake was through banks of screened openings in the car body sides. The last four locomotives of the order were delivered with roof-mounted air intakes. On December 11, 1952, with only the first six locomotives having been delivered, UP placed an order for 15 additional 4,500 horsepower gas turbine locomotives. Numbered 61 though 75, the se
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