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Reply to "steam turbines"

If the diesel locomotive had not come along when it did and swept away all the competition, I sometimes wonder what alternative direction locomotive builders might have taken.  Would the PRR have built an S3, keeping at it until they could get the bugs worked out of the direct-drive turbine concept?  Would the N&W and the C&O have continued refining their steam-turbine-electrics till they worked as planned?  Or would the class 1 railroads have simply gone all out for electrification?

It's just pure speculation of course, but I find that kind of thing interesting.

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