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Originally Posted by Dave Rowland

Oddly enough, since my first posting on this subject, I've found (purely by chance) an article in Feb 1962 Modern Railways, concerning a gas turbine locomotive built for the Swiss railways as early as 1941; this loco, Am4/6 1101, had a serious accident in 1954, and a decision was made to convert it to an experimental electric loco as a testbed for testing in preparation for the consruction of multi-voltage Trans Europe Express traction. It was numbered Ae4/6 10851. The conclusion following the 1954 accident suggested that GT power is best suited to a flat, open landscape, and that the concept wasn't suitable for the small & mountainous confines of Switzerland. I don't know what happened to the rebuilt loco.

10851 was scrapped in 1978.