Mechanical transmissions lack the flexibility and durability needed for North American road locomotives. A hydraulic coupling of the diesel engine and drive wheels is possible and was briefly used ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York has given the green light to Wabtec's R255 hybrid battery-diesel work locomotives for its subway maintenance operations. This move is ...

The Goodwin Alco diesels on the NSW Government Railways of the '50s to '80s had a very different sound to the GM locomotives and they in turn had a very different sound the Caterpillar block engines ...

Ukraine's rail operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, has begun upgrading 40-year-old TEP70 diesel locomotives in its own facilities, according to its Jan. 4 Facebook post.

Lawrie Rose will be firing up one of his three locomotives at the Whitwell and Reepham Railway Station in Norfolk. It will be the first time on New Year's Day that trains are run on the tracks at the ...

Abstract: The increasing prominence of the diesel-electric locomotive on American railroads has given new impetus to the use of dynamic braking. A recent refinement of braking control takes advantage ...

The Fell differential gearbox. All diesel locomotive designs struggle with the problem of transmitting the huge torque required to start a fully loaded train at low speeds, and because of the huge ...

A volunteer-run heritage railway is celebrating one of its diesel locomotives reaching 30 years in preservation service. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, based in Cheltenham ...

On December 5, a fire broke out at the railway depot in the russian city of Bryansk, as a result of which two mainline diesel locomotives burned down ... Drone attack... US says that russian air ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.