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In the modern world of railways, electrification is given great importance. Currently, more than 50% of all freight traffic carried out by electric traction. However, today, about half of the railways are not electrified, so it is necessary to use thermal engines to drive the locomotive. One of the possible variant is use gas turbine unit. The power of the gas turbine unit is given to the electric generator, and the electric motors drive the locomotive. In the present paper, as a power plant of a gas turbine locomotive, considered gas turbine unit with a twin -shaft gas generator of two schemes: 1- with steam supply to the inlet of the high-pressure turbine (into the combustion chamber) and 2- with steam supply to inlet of the free turbine. By CAE system of ASTRA, Collaboration operation lines calculated for different variants of steam injection. When the steam injected into the inlet of a free turbine and a high-pressure turbine. in the case of steam supply to the input of the free turbine and the high-pressure turbine there is a significant shift in Collaboration operation lines, which can lead to a decrease in the gas-dynamical stability of the compressors, and efficiency. To maintain the position of Collaboration operation lines, was applied the correction of the throughput capacity of free turbine nozzle vanes (by 15%). In the case of steam supply to the inlet of a free turbine, to ensure gas-dynamic stability of the compressors, a change in the throughput capacity of its nozzle vanes is required.

Although development of the line of gas turbine engines on the basis of a unified engine core is a widely used practice, the method of selection of the most efficient values of engine core parameters has virtually never been published. The paper describes the method of optimization of values of engine core parameters jointly with optimization of values of every engine forming the line of engines developed on the basis of this core. Both stages of optimization are multi-objective and fulfilled using the results of simulation of engine as a subsystem of the airframe.