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Turbine in Weber Canyon

By Angela Cotey | August 20, 2018

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

Union Pacific No. 51, the first unit in the road’s fleet of General Electric gas-turbine-electric locomotives, climbs east in Weber Canyon with a train out of Ogden, Utah, in mid-1952.
I. W. King photo

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