For the first time in one volume, all of these fascinating turbine-powered locomotives and trains are explored. Author Walter Simpson writes about what made some turbines successful as well as the forces that ultimately led to their demise. What's inside: Union Pacific oil-fired steam-turbine electric Nos. 1 & 2, Pennsylvania RR S2 coal-fired steam turbine, Chesapeake & Ohio M-1 coal-fired steam-turbine electric, Norfolk & Western coal-fired TE-1 "Jawn Henry" steam-turbine electric, Union Pacific oil-fired "Big Blow" gas-turbine electrics, Westinghouse-Baldwin oil-fired "Blue Goose" gas-turbine electric, Union Pacific coal-fired gas-turbine electric, New York Central jet-powered RDC, MTA gas-turbine commuter cars and trains, United Aircraft TurboTrain, Amtrak RTG and RTL Turboliners, Compressed Integrated Natural Gas Locomotive gas-turbine electric, Bombardier JetTrain gas-turbine electric, Plus, a proposed atomic-fueled steam-turbine electric that was never built Book jacket.