Several decades ago, American railroads thought they could make trains more efficient and cheaper to run by ditching the ...

and in the near future many German diesel-electric locomotives will operate using HVO, it would be logical for U.S. passenger railways operating any variation of the Siemens Charger—all of which are ...

The first locomotive to successfully use an AC (alternating current) three-phase asynchronous traction motor drive system was the German DE2500 diesel-electric in 1971, built by Henschel-BBC. DB ...

China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. now controls a supplier of more than one in four European diesel locomotives. China’s world-leading train maker CRRC has gained control of one-quarter of the European ...

French locomotive leasing firm Akiem has acquired Germany-based mgw Service, a company involved in electric and diesel locomotive maintenance. The acquisition is part of Akiem’s programme to ...

China’s world-leading train maker CRRC has gained control of one-quarter of the European diesel-locomotive market in a single purchase costing less than 10m euros ($11m). The acquisition of the ...