Railroads have always been fuel efficient. Locomotive manufacturers find themselves well-positioned to improve that efficiency still more, matching or exceeding expectations of governments worldwide.

Since the second half of the 20th century, four-axle diesel-electric switcher locomotives have been used extensively on short lines. The most common are the EMD SW1500 (1,500 hp/1,119 kW), GP9 (1,750 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Oklahoma Railway Museum (ORM) has taken delivery of a historied alternative fuel testbed locomotive, most recently operated by BNSF as a hydrogen fuel cell switcher ...

NORTH EAST — Another General Electric-built locomotive has come home. A center-cab switcher locomotive built at the former GE Transportation plant in Lawrence Park in 1943 now is retired at the Lake ...

Sierra Northern Railway conducted testing of its hydrogen-fuelled, zero-emission switching locomotive in West Sacramento, California. Credit: Sierra Northern Railway/PRNewswire. Sierra Railroad ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Sierra Northern Railway, based in Woodland, won a $4 ...

Clean diesel technology upgrades for large tug and switcher locomotive engines cost only $4,379 to $15,201 per ton of nitrogen oxides (NOx), compared to more than $30,000 per ton of NOx for many other ...