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 ...

Progress Rail (a Caterpillar Company) announced on Sept. 23 that it is supplying up to four EMD® Joule battery electric locomotives to BNSF Railway (BNSF). Supported in part by grant funding, the ...

Metro-North had announced plans to order 13 battery-electric locomotives from Siemens earlier this year, exercising an option on an existing contract for dual-mode (diesel/third-rail electric ...

Progress Rail, which is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of diesel-electric locomotives, was contracted by Etihad Rail to design, manufacture, test, and ship 38 EMD locomotives that have ...

Within the rails sector, Union Pacific (UNP) is partnering with ZTR to build hybrid-electric locomotives for yard operations, while Norfolk Southern (NSC) and Alstom are launching a hybrid ...

Union Pacific Corp (NYSE: UNP) plans to purchase 20 battery-electric locomotives for testing in yard operations. The company expects the combined purchases and upgrades to yard infrastructure to ...

Metra has awarded Progress Rail a $34.6 million contract to convert up to six of its oldest diesel-electric locomotives to zero-emission battery power. The contract calls for a base order of three ...

Shortage of Freight Rail Locomotives Seen on Emissions Rules, Production Cutbacks By Rip Watson, Senior Reporter This story appears in the Dec. 15 print edition of Transport Topics.

Italian State Railways’ (FS Italiane Group) freight subsidiary Mercitalia Rail and its unit TX Logistik (Polo Mercitalia) are set to purchase up to 125 next-generation TRAXX electric locomotives for a ...

According to a new study, scaling up green locomotive production in Erie to feed a sustainable U.S. rail system could be a game-changer for economic opportunity in northwest Pennsylvania. The ...

British Columbia BC Rail legal payout highly unusual, says report CBC News · Posted: Nov 10, 2011 2:42 PM EST | Last Updated: November 11, 2011 ...