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There are three parts to the PT6 engine.

First is the compressor section. It's like any other turbine engine.

Next is the "free power turbine." You have seen the little pinwheels kids like--you blow on them and they spin. Well, this is a pinwheel for grown-ups: there's a fan on the end of the compressor section's shaft. It blows air against a second turbine that's attached to the next section, which is the gearbox. When the second turbine spins...

the gears and shafts in the gearbox turn and make the engine's propeller rotate.

The PT6 is an unusual engine in that it's "in backwards"--the intake end of the engine, which in most engines points toward the nose of the plane, points toward the tail on a plane with a PT6 in it.

PT6 engines are very versatile and have been used for a lot of things. Someone even tried running a locomotive on one--it worked fine but railroad mechanics would need to be retrained to work on jet engines, so the experiment never got past the trial stage.

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