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 ...

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 ...

Norfolk Southern aids Souderton’s Railroad & Industrial Preservation Society with a $10,000 grant to restore the Alco S2 No. 611, writes Trains.com. Built in 1948, the No. 611 is the last intact ...

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 ...

As the Indian Railways intensifies its electrification efforts along its network, it is also finding methods to put its soon-to-be-redundant diesel locomotives to good use, by repurposing them for ...

The Federal Government on Thursday took delivery of a retrofitted Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) locomotive, designed to run on a dual-fuel system of 70% Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and 30% diesel ...

Caltrain has opened an online store with the hope of auctioning off 20 retired diesel locomotives that can be repurposed as a brewery, store, community center or cozy home. An opening bid for the ...

The addition of the historic ALCO locomotives (one FPA-4 and one FPB-4) brings the railroad’s total number of locomotives to five, according to a news release. “We are thrilled to welcome ...

Australia’s largest rail freight operator, Aurizon, will develop and test a 1.8MWh battery-electric tender (BET) to power a standard diesel-electric locomotive in a hybrid diesel-battery configuration ...

The long-term loan of the industrial diesel locomotive was granted by Hope Cement Works in Derbyshire, a cement manufacturing operation which opened in 1929. The Sentinel diesel locomotive was ...