High-horsepower, six-axle road locomotives are generally regarded to be units making between 3,800 to 4,400 hp. Over the last four decades the horsepower output has steadily grown to the high end of ...

mainly specialising in finely detailed scale models of 19th- and early 20th-century steam-powered road locomotives. “I make the entire engines from scratch,” she told the Ma lvern Gazette in 2007.

A rare locomotive train dating back to just after the Second World War has left Nene Valley Railway museum after 50 years in Peterborough. Credit: ITV News Anglia A rare steam locomotive that has ...

GB Railfreight has today announced that its new Stadler-built Class 99 locomotives will run off electricity or renewable fuels such as HVO, or Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil). The locomotives are set to ...

That, plus the gradual change to locomotive-generated head-end power led to the units’ early retirement in the mid-1980s. A majority were returned to EMD where components from 132 units were recycled ...

The move is to secure new opportunities for the owning group, the Battle of Britain Locomotive Society. 34081 has been owned by the Battle of Britain Locomotive Society since 1973, when they purchased ...

Chicago commuter operator is looking to install batteries on three older locomotives. CHICAGO commuter train operator Metra has announced it will issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) challenging ...

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The new locomotives will offer a 16% improvement in fuel efficiency compared with SJRRC’s current fleet of F40PH locomotives and will also enable the maximum train length to be increased from seven to ...