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Most of the freight locomotives here in America use diesel-electric technology. They have gigantic diesel engines that act as generators for the electric motors that do the heavy lifting to get power ...

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 ...

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 ...

Representatives from Cuban Union Railways (UFC) and Lyudinovo Locomotive Works (LTZ), Russia, together with other suppliers within the Sinara group have begun to finalize the specifications for a new ...

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...