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The Beyer-Ljungstrom locomotive looks conventional at first sight, but a second look shows six coupled driving wheels under the tender, which in fact carries a turbine power plant. The tender also carries the condenser, which permits direct coupling to the turbine exhaust through a large area. duct This is essential to get the best efficiency from a condensing turbine because of the large amount of expansion and therefore the big volume of exhaust steam. She is a 4-6-0+0-6-4

The loco was built by Beyer-Peacock of Manchester, UK, the turbine technology being provided by Ljungstrom Anturbin of Sweden and was built in 1927.

The locomotive ran on the LMS during 1926-28, but was then withdrawn and eventually dismantled. Great things had been expected of this courageous design, but results were not as good as expected, partly due to leaks of air into the condenser, spoiling the vacuum, but mostly down to poor combustion. The air preheater is believed to have contributed to this. The greatest turbine output obtained was 1650 HP. The locomotive was finally dismantled in 1928. Placed into a storage hall she was forgotten and left in the dark.
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:icontrainzman14578:
I saw it on Wikipedia!
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*KirovRampager Feb 16, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
^^
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:icontrainzman14578:
Where's the headlights on this beast?
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*KirovRampager Feb 16, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
on the pilot wheels
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:iconunknownjester:
nice it looks very interesting ^^
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:iconcommander-fillmore:
Holly crap dude that's nuts
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~Der-Buchstabe-R Feb 5, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Great work, even though seeing the power coming from the tender is kinda weird.
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*KirovRampager Feb 5, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
the generator is in the tender with the turbine so yeah it is a bit odd
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~Der-Buchstabe-R Feb 5, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
So, does it preform better going backwards?
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*KirovRampager Feb 5, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
nods, turbines get up to speed instantly instead of taking the time to start up like normal steam engines
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