WASHINGTON — Kazakhstan's national railway has agreed to spend more than a half-billion dollars to outfit its trains with hundreds of new "environmentally clean" diesel locomotives built by General ...

Locomotives that run on diesel can be electrified. This would both cut CO 2 emissions and significantly reduce overall energy consumption, according to a new study. Researchers at SINTEF have now ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI — A locomotive that played a critical part of an Ottawa County coal power plant that’s closing is one of the pieces of the plant finding new life. For decades, a yellow gigantic ...

There isn’t a lot of romance in getting to a destination today, and that’s sad. Planes feel like flying transit buses, and most commuter trains are all business and almost no fun. Even road trips lose ...

JSC Ukrzaliznytsia's fleet of electric locomotives is 5 times larger than its fleet of diesel locomotives. This makes electric locomotives critically important and necessitates their purchase, board ...

Two electric locomotives from Innovative Rail Technologies will work the US Steel switching yards at Mon Valley Works’ Edgar Thomson and Clairton plants near Pittsburgh and will save an estimated ...

You might have played with electric trains as a child, but most life-size trains in the United States run on diesel, and the rail sector is far behind the automobile sector in moving to less-polluting ...

Australia’s diesel locomotives can be quickly converted into hybrid electric trains following a breakthrough in battery technology by Melbourne-based power technology company Alta Battery Technology.

MUMBAI, June 25 (Reuters) - General Electric is keen to build a plant in India to make diesel locomotives jointly with the Indian Railways, the Business Standard reported on Monday. The proposed plant ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev., Dec. 11, 2003 — GE Marine & Stationary Power (M&SP) now offers three medium-speed diesel engines that are especially suitable for power generation and mechanical drive applications.