Wabtec for example has seen 11% fuel savings by including its FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive (BEL) in a diesel consist (capturing only the braking energy of the BEL itself). Other studies ...

Diesel and petrol prices are still on track for cuts in the first week of May, thanks to oil price weakness. South African fuel prices are largely determined by international oil costs and the rand ...

A locomotive used to transport nuclear material around the Sellafield nuclear site has been returned to the firm that rebuilt it. Sellafield Ltd said it was replacing its diesel vehicles with ...

In the transition from steam to battery-powered locomotives, railroad locomotives spent an extended sojourn as diesel-electric haulers. While the diesel engine in a diesel-electric train generates ...

(Those would be the diesel ones, for those of you unacquainted with the compression-ignition lifestyle.) But Cummins has a new turbocharged 6.7-liter inline-six that takes the brand in a new ...

Bill Zuback photo Just as BLH was producing its last locomotives, Gilbert decided American Flyer needed a low-end switcher to compete with the Lionel NW2. With one Alco and one EMD diesel already ... ...

Preparing for delivery of 100 Tier 4 diesel-electric locomotives in 2025, which is meant to reduce air pollutants and emissions and enhance fuel economy and reliability.

Period. That, however, is exactly what Caltrain is doing by donating its decommissioned, diesel locomotives, which spew filthy emissions, to the developing country of Peru. It’s an incredibly ...

A Wabtec R255 hybrid battery-diesel work locomotive for New York’s MTA testing on the track in Erie, Pennsylvania. Credit: Wabtec Corporation. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New ...

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 ...

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSX,NYSE:CP) is tapping a Canadian supplier – Burnaby's Ballard Power Systems (TSX, NASDAQ: BLDP) – to switch its locomotives from diesel to hydrogen in Canada ...

Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CNW Group/Ballard Power Systems ... will support the expansion of CPKC's hydrogen locomotive program. Prototype diesel freight locomotives retrofitted with hydrogen ...