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 ...

Within U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works, diesel-powered locomotives chug along the plant’s rail lines, hauling tons of steel, coke, scrap metals and iron ore for steel production. Now, those ...

Chicago’s track-burning commuter rail network Metra announced this week that it is converting its older diesel-electric locomotives to pure ... Conversion is expected to take some 3.5 ...

In a series hybrid, there are two motors: a diesel generator and an electric motor (diesel-electric). This was first used in ships in the 1900s and would see increasing use in railway locomotives ...

Metra is planning to convert as many as six of its diesel locomotives to battery power. The Illinois commuter railroad’s board approved a contract last week with Progress Rail that includes a ...

Project partner Alta Battery Technology will design and build the prototype BET, utilizing the company’s DC-to-DC converter to supply current to the locomotive’s traction motors. The federal ...

Once converted, they'll be added to the existing Charleston-based fleet of 13 diesel-powered lead-dog behemoths that Palmetto Railways owns. "I'm shooting for two years," McCrory said. Power play ...

Considering how much of the North American rolling stock on its rail systems is diesel-electric, it’s more amazing that it would have taken so long for the same shift to series hybrid on its road.

Railway PSU RITES is modifying diesel locomotives to suit African needs; has two orders from South African mineral and steel plants; bogies, wheels being converted to run on smaller Cape Gauge ...