Big hooks is the nearly universal nickname for railroad wrecking cranes, powerful machines capable of many tasks ...

Reading Company steam locomotives were being put out to pasture by new diesel locomotives in the early 1950s. This fireman ...

Upgrading the Northeast Corridor, the train tracks that run from Boston to Washington by way of New York, Philadelphia, and ...

An assortment of Electro-Motive Division and Alco locomotives waits between assignments at the diesel shop in Barstow, Calif.

CN’s first medium-horsepower hybrid locomotive has entered service. Built by KLW (Knoxville Locomotive Works) Q19-2.4GH No.

El Paso Locomotives forward Amando Moreno joins us to talk about the big match and what it means to play against his former team. The match will be Saturday, May 3, at 7 p.m. at Southwest ...

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 ...

And I mean literally at freight speed, because the aptly-named startup, SunTrain, convened us to watch a diesel locomotive hauling solar energy. The star of this demonstration at the Port of San ...

Freight operating company GB Railfreight (GBRf) has named its Class 57 loco 57310 ‘UK Railtours‘. The new name was unveiled at a ceremony at Southend Central station in Essex on Saturday, 12 April.

With new hybrids now allowed until 2035, we run the numbers on what difference it's likely to make to cars' fuel economies and your wallet Michael PassinghamSenior researcher & writer Until recently, ...

The feat, now listed in the Malaysia Book of Records as the “First Locally Manufactured Locomotive for Export”, means Malaysia is now on the global rail map with its ability to export diesel ...