OptiFuel’s innovative modular locomotive systems facilitate rapid and efficient production, retrofits, and maintenance - empowering railroads to customize locomotives, efficiently trial and integrate ...

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 ...

Locomotives remain a fast and efficient way to move cargo overland. The low rolling resistance of steel-on-steel will always beat rubber on road, the ability to pull long chains of freight cars, ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - General Electric's plan to build a diesel locomotive factory in eastern India is proceeding as planned, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday, aiming to allay the U.S.

Most of the freight locomotives here in America use diesel-electric technology. They have gigantic diesel engines that act as generators for the electric motors that do the heavy lifting to get power ...

Following on the heels of my previous message touring the cab of a GP7 diesel-electric locomotive comes this tour of an EMD FP7 or more commonly called an F unit. This particular locomotive currently ...

Recently, CRRC signed a contract for the design and manufacturing of six narrow-gauge AC drive diesel locomotives and a ten-year maintenance service with a customer in the Democratic Republic (DR) of ...

At 16:00 on 17 May with a crisp whistle, two units of CKD9A-1 type high-power mainline freight locomotives made in CRRC Ziyang departed from Alataw Pass in Xinjiang into Central Asia, via Kazakhstan, ...

Stauffer Diesel has provided power to customers for decades. Now a new contract is empowering its own operation. The multimillion-dollar contract, secured through its Stadco Generators division, has ...

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