General Electric Company Press Release on Union Pacific Railroad Ordered

ID # 23,472

For release after 7 PM EST

Wednesday, December 10, 1952

News Bureau (F. H. Gildner)

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Schenectady 5, New York

MORE POWER TO UNION PACIFIC -- The Union Pacific Railroad has just ordered another 15 of these 45OO-horsepower giants the gas turbine electric locomotive -- from the General Electric Company. This newest form of motive power for the railroads packs the greatest horsepower per foot of length of any internally-powered locomotive ever built. With its 83 feet, this unit provides practically 54 horsepower per foot or the equivalent of three diesel-electric units measuring some 150 feet. The Union Pacific, which already has in operation six gas turbine electrics of a previous order of ten, uses these locomotives on the main line between Ogden, Utah, and Green River, Wyo.

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