Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern currently have more than 2,300 locomotives in storage and anticipate, at least initially, ...

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The MTA is expanding its Metro-North railroad fleet with new battery-powered trains that will run on the New Haven Line with ...

An $850 million contract was awarded for 75 locomotives to be delivered through 2024. See more stories on Insider's business page. Amtrak last month unveiled the new upgrades to its Superliner and ...

When it comes to improving efficiency and reducing emissions in transportation, often the answer is to take what’s old and replace it with something entirely new, such as buying an electric vehicle.

Amtrak began the debut of its new, faster and more energy-efficient locomotives yesterday in Chicago, when one of them pulled the Empire Builder train from Chicago to Seattle. The ACL-42 locomotives ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Amtrak has unveiled at a plant in California the first of 70 new locomotives, marking what the national passenger railroad service said it hopes will be a new era of better ...

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 ...

New locomotives that run on electricity and renewable fuels could reduce rail freight emissions by more than half on a typical journey. A £150m investment was made into Class 99 locomotives, which ...

The agency that oversees the U.S. rail network thinks it has a plan to help freight trains switch from diesel to cleaner and less expensive electric power. A Federal Railroad Administration study on ...

Michigan-based Class II Lake State Railway Company (LSRC) is purchasing four EMD® SD70ACeT4 locomotives from Progress Rail, a ...

For the first time in a generation, a brand-new locomotive will lead Amtrak’s Empire Builder across the prairies and mountains of Montana. This month, Amtrak began using its newly acquired ALC-42 ...