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Cando Rail & Terminals of Edmonton, Alberta, today announced it’s developing a lithium-ion (li-ion) battery-powered switching locomotive. The legacy, non-tier compliant locomotive will be retrofitted ...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Northern Railway (SERA) announced today at the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) conference in Denver, ...

SERA’s zero-emission hydrogen switching locomotive. Credit: PRNewswire / Sierra Northern Railway. Sierra Railroad Company’s freight division Sierra Northern Railway (SERA) has unveiled the design ...

Locomotives powered by electricity have been around for over a century, with rail lines like the now-defunct Pennsylvania Rail Road starting electric operations as early as 1905. However, the average ...

Diesel locomotives could soon disappear from the challenging ghat section of the Bengaluru-Mangaluru railway route, with ...

Bengaluru: Diesel locomotives on Bengaluru-Mangaluru rail section could soon become history.Get breaking news anytime, ...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Northern Railway (SERA) continues to lead the industry in the conversion of diesel locomotives to hydrogen-fueled, zero- emission ...

Twenty Blues trains are now running—and plans are in the works to bring more than 100 into operation. Hitachi Rail Europe’s first trains to use batteries as a main source of power have arrived.

CPKC in January 2024 reported that its hydrogen-powered locomotives—Nos. 1001 and 1002, designed and built by in-house engineers—were operating in regular switching service at the Calgary Terminal.

RailComm Inc. recently obtained an order from ON Materials for a wireless remote-control locomotive switching system. Designed to provide a locomotive engineer control of all power switches from the ...

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 ...