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

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 ...

Caltrain is selling its old diesel trains to the city of Lima, Peru, for $6 million, a Caltrain spokesman said. Lima will use 90 gallery cars and 19 diesel locomotives to start a new commuter rail ...

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 ...

The Class DD51 diesel-hydraulic locomotive was in service for nearly 60 years since the era of the former Japanese National Railways. The Class DD51 replaced steam locomotives as the workhorse of ...

Norfolk Southern is applying Alstom's hybrid technology, used extensively in European rail, to freight locomotives in North ...

and upgrade the old locomotives to a diesel-electric standard where the engine only generates electricity to drive electric motors that provide the traction. According to Kenya Railways, the advanced ...