Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93 is on its way to Mid-America Car in Kansas City, Mo., for a complete ...

General Motors and rail equipment provider Wabtec Corporation recently announced a partnership to develop and commercialize electric locomotives. The collaboration aims to use GM’s Ultium ...

Explore the history and impact of Amtrak GE locomotives in U.S. rail travel through three General Electric locomotives.

In fact, U.S. six-axle diesel locomotive total maximum power of 3,280 kW is less than that of four-axle European (6,400 kW), six- and eight-axle Russian (8,400 kW), and eight-axle Indian (9,000 kW) ...

ROMANIA: The first of 16 Alstom Traxx Universal locomotives ordered by national railway reform authority ARF is undergoing ...

Two electric locomotives from Innovative Rail Technologies will work the US Steel switching yards at Mon Valley Works’ Edgar Thomson and Clairton plants near Pittsburgh and will save an ...

General Motors’ Hydrotec hydrogen fuel cell power cubes are compact and easy to package, and can be used across a wide range of applications, including locomotives.

McCabe said each locomotive’s battery would hold more than 2 megawatt-hours of energy, about as much as 29 electric car batteries. Tacoma Rail estimates the two short-haul locomotives and ...

Union Pacific plans to purchase 20 battery-electric locomotives, which the company says will result in the largest investment in battery-electric technology by a U.S. Class I railroad.

Wabtec developed its FLXdrive prototype (pictured above), and claims it’s the world’s first fully electric freight locomotive. The 430,000-pound FLXdrive uses 18,000 lithium-ion battery cells.

Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE:CNI) announced on Thursday the launch of its new medium horsepower hybrid electric locomotive developed in collaboration with Knoxville Locomotive Works ...