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| 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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