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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Within U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works, diesel-powered locomotives chug along the plant’s rail lines, hauling tons of steel, coke, scrap metals and iron ore for steel production. Now ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York has given the green light to Wabtec's R255 hybrid battery-diesel work locomotives for its subway maintenance operations. This move is ...