The collection includes 131 locomotives – some of which have never been run – ‘dozens’ of vintage passenger carriages, 80 goods wagons, two breakdown cranes and a significant amount of track.

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 ...

Rail How California's Ban on Diesel Locomotives Could Have Major National Repercussions No technology exists today to enable railroads to comply with the state's diktat, which villainizes a mode ...

The MTA is expected on Wednesday to approve a $788 million deal to replace its aging fleet of diesel locomotives relied upon by thousands of Long Island commuters, particularly in Suffolk ...

The fire that engulfed the sleeper car of the City of New Orleans last week was fed by fuel spilling from two state-of-the-art locomotives specifically designed to prevent diesel fires after ...

Metrolink unveils new locomotives that could help improve the region’s air Rick Tripoli, Metrolink’s director of equipment, walks through one of 40 new engines the commuter rail line is buying.

Diesel-electric locomotives can be easily converted to battery-electric, says a new paper in Nature Energy, at a 20-year cost that can beat parity if emissions costs are taken into account. And ...

Because the diesel engine always works in the high efficiency range, the fuel consumption for idling, emissions, and noise are all reduced. At the same time, power braking gives priority to recovery ...

Case in point: The agency’s newer, sophisticated diesel locomotives, built in the mid-2000s, average about 13,600 miles between breakdowns, on par with the ancient Geeps.