History of the Locomotive - Episode 317
Unprofessional Engineering
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The Last Steam Locomotive in the US
The last steam locomotive was used in the US in 1961 by the Grand Trunk Railroad. The GE VO16 engine operates on a four stroke cycle and it's fully turbocharged via two turbochargers and an intercooler producing 6,000 GHP. New locomotives weigh as much as 108 hippos because why don't you measure things in hippos? Railroads can move one ton of freight, more than 480 miles on a single gallon of fuel.
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