Union Pacific is partnering with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District to repower 10 low-horsepower diesel-electric locomotives into ...

The battery-electric locomotives will be used as part of a new service that will bring Metro North’s New Haven Line directly ...

A tryout at its Roseville yard has helped persuade Union Pacific Railroad to order 10 hybrid locomotives for the company's Southern California operations. The engines, nicknamed "Green Goats," cut ...

Voltify, a start-up, has a bold ambition to convince U.S. Class 1 railroad companies to switch to battery-electric power. Powering locomotives using batteries rather than diesel would save U.S. rail ...

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A new crop of "ultra-low emission" short-haul locomotives could have significant public health benefits, according to rail industry officials and federal health experts, who suggest that they could ...

Federal safety officials are focusing on why a railroad switch was set in the wrong position sending an New York-to-Miami bound Amtrak train with more than 140 people aboard off the main line and onto ...