Kitson-Still Steam-Diesel Hybrid
Nov 12, 2019
2 minutes
RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
ROBERT HUMM COLLECTION
While diesel locomotives with electric transmission have been commonplace since the 1940s, the technology was still unproven in the 1920s, and various other new forms of traction were being devised in parallel to challenge it.
One of the most unusual to modern eyes was the Kitson-Still steam-diesel hybrid locomotive, which was tested
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