A real train lover can’t help but feel drawn to the gritty strength of a diesel motor. Though today leans into silent, sleek ...

NEXT-GEN SMALL-ROAD MOTIVE POWER, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2025 ISSUE: Short lines and switching operations face several hurdles if they want to acquire locomotives powered by fuels beyond diesel. For ...

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BNSF EMD SD70MAC 9819, one of 450 originally ordered by Burlington Northern in 1993. Wikimedia Commns/ Quatro Valvole. The first locomotive to successfully use an AC (alternating current) three-phase ...

The freshly painted SD40-2 #1776 engine, left, poses at Jim Thorpe Yard next to the usual power for the Pittston excursions. PORT CLINTON — The newly painted Reading & Northern SD40-2 diesel ...

NEW LONDON, Conn. (WFSB) - Connecticut’s Department of Transportation is proposing to replace the electric trains on Shore Line East with diesel engines, a cost-cutting move that could save the state ...

The passenger rail company’s 83 new trains use diesel fuel. Amtrak says they’ll cut transportation emissions by expanding rail service. When Norman Forde, Amtrak’s vice president of fleet and ...

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 sending ...

Neil Briscoe asks if we should be making major efforts to electrify public transport or if it is enough just to get people ...