NEW FREEDOM, Pa. (WHTM) — Railroad lovers should head over to Northern Central Railway to see the newly purchased EMD GP9 diesel locomotive. It’s 60 years old but in good shape. The locomotive will ...

After an absence of 12 years, Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. (a subsidiary of the Progress Rail Services Corp. division of Caterpillar Inc.’s Rail Division) has reentered the passenger locomotive market.

Five years after World War II ended, it became apparent to the railroads that steam locomotives were not the motive power of the choice. While a half dozen locomotive builders were assembling ...