Most of the freight locomotives here in America use diesel-electric technology. They have gigantic diesel engines that act as ...

Ripley applied his European experience ... The genesis of the Santa Fe Railway's first diesel-electric passenger locomotive, twin-unit boxcab No. 1, took place at a meeting in Chicago on Sept.

David Gubler/Wikimedia Commons For roughly 28 years, maximum power of AC traction motors has not changed, and new, powerful electric locomotives have appeared on the railways of Europe and Asia. In ...

IN A significant step towards enhancing its revenues, Indian Railways is set to start exporting locomotives to Guinea, a ...

Rice and F. E. Harris of the United States Bureau of Mines, and a report has been published under the title of “Diesel Mine Locomotives—Development and Use in European Coal Mines” (a ...

Caltrain has opened an online store with the hope of auctioning off 20 retired diesel locomotives that can be repurposed as a brewery, store, community center or cozy home. An opening bid for the ...