Colossal freight locomotives are a fixture of the American landscape, but their 4,400-horsepower engines collectively burn 3.5 billion gallons of diesel annually, at a time when railroads and ...

In the 1930s, GM's Electro-Motive Division began producing many popular diesel-electric locomotives, and the diesel engines that powered them, for America's railroads. In fact, General Motors ...

Last year, the federal government required that rebuilt locomotives and new engines purchased by passenger and freight railroads must reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 80% and particulates by 90% ...

But while some areas have largely managed to electrify their rail systems, others persist with diesel locomotives, and these are largely responsible for nearly half a percent of global greenhouse ...

The problem has been made clearer by an under-the-radar plan to phase out diesel locomotives in California. If the federal government provides the state with a helping hand, it would bring ...

As part of an experiment to cut emissions from older diesel locomotives, the railroad has removed the two smokestacks from the locomotive and replaced them with a big stainless steel box that sits ...

Hybrid locomotives adopt a diesel engine and battery power as a power source, with three driving modes and three charging modes, which are automatically controlled by a microcomputer control program.

Since its start in 1971, Amtrak has operated iconic locomotives from the diesel F40PH and P42 to the electric GG1, AEM7 and new ACS64. Diesel locomotives may be found across the national network ...

But beyond tragedies like this, folks across the country are being poisoned everyday by harmful diesel fumes and other locomotive emissions. The vast majority of freight locomotives are old diesel ...

Prospective buyers interested in the “gently used” 135-ton diesel locomotives posted on the Caltrain website are out of luck since the Bay Area transit agency finalized the sale. Caltrain is ...

A dozen old diesel trains have been abandoned in a Cheshire quarry, with aerial images showing the locomotives, built between 1989 and 1993, packed tightly together and slowly rusting away.