The Illinois Terminal was an electric interurban line serving western Illinois down to the St. Louis area. In the mid-1950s ...

The Woodstown Central Railroad, the heritage rail operation of SMS Rail Service, has announced that its restored Alco 0-6-0 ...

Most of you know me from my career as a main line diesel locomotive engineer - a ... second or third-hand locomotives, but ...

The Goodwin-Alco main stay larger locomotives were the 44 Class ... The air-conditioned and sound proofing of the 80 Class square ended diesel cabin design was very different again, as much of the ...

The American Locomotive Company (ALCO), based in Schenectady, New York, United States produced a wide range of diesel-electric locomotives from its opening in 1901 until it ceased manufacture in 1969.

Locomotives in the scrapyard Sitting switchers The switcher is a rapidly-dying species on American railroads. Pushed out of ...

Prospective buyers interested in the “gently used” 135-ton diesel locomotives posted on the Caltrain website are out of luck since the Bay Area transit agency finalized the sale. Caltrain is ...

The zoo is parting ways with its steam engines to make way for new diesel engine locomotives that are currently on order. "When you're 16 and start a job you don’t ever think you’ll be in the ...

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

Since converting to electric-powered trains, a retired fleet of 19 diesel locomotives and 90 retired silver gallery cars will ...

NETHERLANDS: Tata Steel's Velsen-Noord plant has put into service the first of 10 General Electric 90 tonne Bo-Bo ...

Kenya Railways and UK-based power and propulsion systems group Rolls-Royce have announced that three of the former’s heavy haulage locomotives ... all new mtu-brand diesel engines – have ...