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 ...

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 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Midwest Terminals in Toledo reconfigured a diesel locomotive from the 1950s into a 100% battery-powered locomotive. This is the first of its kind within the United States. The ...

CSX is transitioning more diesel-electric locomotives to hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) power at its Huntington Locomotive Shop in West Virginia. Meanwhile, Union Pacific (UP) and locomotive control systems ...

The two new electric locomotives will save 40,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year and emit no CO2. U.S. Steel unveiled a new battery-powered locomotive for its Clairton Coke Works near Pittsburgh on ...

Wabtec’s FLXdrive Heavy Haul locomotive, the world’s first 100% battery-electric heavy-haul locomotive for mainline service, is headed to Australia to transport iron ore. Iron ore mining company Roy ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- U.S. Steel says a battery-powered locomotive will improve air quality in the Mon Valley. Before a group of steelworkers, elected officials and friends in the Mon Valley, U.S.

A new battery-powered locomotive designed to take on the frigid temperatures found in Canada was shown off at a railyard in ...