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In 2005, when Veolia Transport started running France’s first privately operated freight train in 70 years, the locomotives hauling the train attracted far less attention than a group of demonstrating ...

As the Railway Technical Website notes, diesel-electric and diesel-hydraulic aren’t the only ways to propel a locomotive forward. Many smaller locomotives, especially some found in developing regions ...

Brookville, Pa.-based Brookville Equipment Corp. said Monday, March 9, 2015 it "shipped an all-new highly-customized 88-ton diesel-hydraulic yard switching locomotive to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard ...

The Brandenburg-based private rail operator Havellandische Eisenbahn AG (HVLE) has ordered two Maxima 40 CC locomotives from Voith Turbo Lokomotivtechnik and thus made a systems decision in favor of ...

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 ...