Rail technology company Wabtec has demonstrated an electric locomotive that could help lessen the environmental footprint of heavy-haul freight services. The company's battery-powered FLXdrive ...
There is a reason why rail freight continues to move nearly 40% of North America’s freight per ton-mile – it is efficient with significantly lower emissions. How efficient? Specifically, rail can move ...
Going way back in time, in 1966, traction motor power of North American diesel-electric locomotives was far less than that of Soviet Union electric locomotives. For example, individual traction motor ...
The state of California is planning to make all its passenger rail 100% emissions-free by 2035. A prototype HFC (hydrogen fuel cell) trainset, the Stadler FLIRT H2, has been tested and will begin ...
General Motors and rail equipment provider Wabtec Corporation recently announced a partnership to develop and commercialize electric locomotives. The collaboration aims to use GM’s Ultium battery ...
You might have played with electric trains as a child, but most life-size trains in the United States run on diesel, and the rail sector is far behind the automobile sector in moving to less-polluting ...
Following recent news of the purchase of ten electric locomotives from Wabtec, Union Pacific railroad has followed up by purchasing another ten from Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Inc. company. Union ...
Roy Hill, an iron ore mining, rail and port operation in western Australia, was the first announced buyer of Wabtec's new FLXdrive, a battery-electric locomotive built in Erie. The company's second ...
Raleigh plans to replace the 2015 propane engine with a modern electric model as the current locomotive heads to auction on ...
More than 100 years ago, this dream died when the line’s strongest promoter, L.N. Loomis, president of the Twin Cities & Lake ...
General Motors and Wabtec Corp. are partnering to develop and commercialize the automaker's battery and fuel cell technologies for locomotives. The companies have signed a nonbinding memorandum of ...
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