Understanding brake horsepower: Diesel engines, like all engines, are built to perform a specific function. In a locomotive, that role is to provide power to move freight cars from one place to ...

On October 15 of this year, senior Southern California train fans experienced locomotive déjà vu. It was fascinating and sad ...

MTA notes the new locomotives will travel much farther under electric power than the current fleet of locomotives they will ...

The Isle of Wight Steam Railway (IWSR) is saying a fond farewell to one of its locomotives, which is going to a new home near ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recently unveiled the first two of 33 state-of-the-art, 4,200-horsepower ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Woman 2: Rocket inspired all future steam locomotives… and in just over 100 years, Mallard, the fastest steam engine in the world… reached 126 miles per hour in 1938. Woman 3: With diesel ...

which allowed it to reclaim its title as the largest steam locomotive in the world. It’s almost as long as two typical diesel locomotives and produces more than 6,000 horsepower.

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 ...

We’ve ranked the Best Diesel Trucks based on our testing of both gas and diesel versions of each model encompassing roughly 200 data points covering acceleration, handling, comfort, cargo space ...

"There will then follow a period of locomotive testing, commissioning and footplate crew training before No.563 triumphantly hauls its first passenger train since 1948," he said. The relaunch of ...