New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has exercised an option with Wabtec to purchase 45 additional R255 hybrid ...

Rolls-Royce has won a contract from Knoxville Locomotive Works (KLW), United States, to supply two types of EPA Tier-4-compliant MTU diesel engines to power switching locomotives. Series 4000 and 2000 ...

Within U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works, diesel-powered locomotives chug along the plant’s rail lines, hauling tons of steel, coke, scrap metals and iron ore for steel production. Now, those engines will ...

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Indian Railways is set to install a new system on-board locomotive cabins in a bid to increase safety and reduce train accidents. The new Loco Cab Video and Voice Recording System (LCVR) is being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was working on advancements in diesel technology, but it hit a few roadblocks. In those days, some European diesel locomotives weighed well over 100 metric tons, which just wasn’t going to work for ...

NEW DELHI, July 12, 2005 (AsiaPulse) — Three diesel locomotives are being manufactured at Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi for export to Sudan. This is the first time that a locomotive is being ...

WOODLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) (NYSE:GWR) today announced that two new U.S. EPA Tier 4-compliant low-emission locomotives completed trials and are now in service on ...

Founded in l830, the Philadelphia-based Baldwin Locomotive Works grew into the world's largest steam locomotive builder. Baldwin locomotives ruled the rails of countries large and small in North and ...