Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern and manufacturing giant Alstom are testing a different approach: retrofitting a pair of half-century-old locomotives with a new hybrid electric propulsion system ...
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has unveiled its first two new 4,200-horsepower locomotives that will upgrade and replace MTA’s Metro-North Railroad’s existing fleet of ...
MESSRS. EDITORS—"What is the horse power of a locomotive under the following circumstances, namely, eylindersfifteen inches in diameter ; stroke, twenty inches ; driving wheels, five feet ...
Santa Fe 4-6-4 No. 3463 awaits departure from Chicago’s Dearborn Station on July 6, 1948. A Topeka, Kan., group seeks to restore the locomotive, long on display in the city. Warren M. Scholl ...
The first two SC42-DM locomotives are part of a future fleet of 33. Credit: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in the US has revealed new ...
Locomotive 120 first entered Metra service in 1977. Metra/Provided “Metra has strong ties to our nation’s armed forces,” said Jim Derwinski, Metra’s CEO and executive director, in a statement.