America’s railroads are under pressure to reduce the tons of pollution their locomotives spew daily and to cut their fuel expenses as well. Can they do it? With the help of the “Green Goat” and ...

There’s a new animal roaming Norfolk International Terminal’s yard. The Green Goat, a hybrid locomotive used to push and pull rail cars throughout the terminal, arrived last month and soon will be ...

At times during the winter, the emissions coming from the Union Pacific Railroad’s rail switching yard in South Salt Lake equal those off nearby Interstate 15 at rush hour. This is because the ...

Union Pacific is partnering with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District to repower 10 low-horsepower diesel-electric locomotives into ...

North American railway franchise Union Pacific has partnered with two Californian air-management districts to upgrade ten low-horsepower diesel-electric locomotives of its yard switching fleet, in a ...

With no discussion the members of the Los Angeles City Trade, Travel and Tourism Committee on Tuesday, Oct. 15, advanced an agreement for a zero-emissions switcher locomotive demonstration project at ...

OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Oklahoma Railway Museum (ORM) has taken delivery of a historied alternative fuel testbed locomotive, most recently operated by BNSF as a hydrogen fuel cell switcher ...

Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company, has developed a new battery-powered switcher locomotive, the EMD® Joule, working in collaboration with its South American customer Vale. Progress Rail anticipates ...

Sierra Northern Railway, based in Woodland, won a $4 million grant from the California Energy Commission Wednesday to design and build a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive at the Port of West ...