If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

On first glance, the hulking locomotive in Union Pacific Railroad's yard near the Port of Oakland looks like any other. But Locomotive 1378 doesn't have any smokestacks -- or the clouds of black smoke ...

You gotta start somewhere. In this case, it’s the BNSF switchyard in Richmond, where the Richmond Pacific Railroad is testing the nation’s first “Tier 4” switch engine for certification. Tier 4 is a ...

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 ...

A diesel locomotive billed as the cleanest in the world made its debut Tuesday at the Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad. The $2 million price tag for the Omni 1050 locomotive was helped by a $900 ...

Maintaining the highest fleet of high-horsepower diesel locomotives in Southern Railway zone, the Diesel Loco Shed here is closer to getting an International Management System (IMS) certification. The ...

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has issued a Request for Proposals for battery-electric and Tier 4 diesel locomotives as part of its efforts to modernize its equipment fleet and upgrade ...

The subway system’s fleet of work-train locomotives is in a sorry state, the Daily News has learned, with nearly two-thirds ...

Learn more about the Athearn HO EMD SD40-2 and watch it operate on Model Railroader’s East Troy project layout.

The new indigenous electric locomotive delivers 5,000 horsepower instead of 2,600 horsepower as delivered by the diesel version of the locomotive. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged off the ...

Indian Railways has finally got a diesel locomotive that has a vacuum toilet for loco pilots! In a major relief to train drivers, the budget proposal to provide toilet facility for loco pilots was ...