America's most powerful locomotive was so extreme, cities had to ban it

In the 1950s, a new kind of locomotive made even extreme hills easy for trains to climb. But this extra-powerful engine came ...
Capital Public Radio

Diesel Locomotive Debuts At Stockton Railroad

A diesel locomotive billed as the cleanest in the world made its debut Tuesday at the Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad. The $2 million price tag for the Omni 1050 locomotive was helped by a $900 ...
Railway Age

History of U.S. Diesel-Electric AC Traction

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 ...
Railway Age

Looking Beyond Diesel

NEXT-GEN SMALL-ROAD MOTIVE POWER, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2025 ISSUE: Short lines and switching operations face several hurdles if they want to acquire locomotives powered by fuels beyond diesel. For ...
The Durango Herald

Durango railroad purchases four diesel locomotives

After a historic drought year in 2018 that culminated in the 416 Fire, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad owner Al Harper promised to bolster his fleet with engines that run on oil and diesel, ...
Hackaday

Retrotechtacular: The Fell Locomotive

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...
Penn Live

Central Pa. excursion railroad purchases train that was used at Letterkenny

A York County excursion railroad has purchased a new train. Northern Central Railway of York in New Freedom has purchased a GE 80-ton diesel locomotive from McHugh Locomotive & Equipment. The train ...
The Durango Herald

Durango railroad’s new diesel shop brings past into present

The mechanics working tirelessly behind the scenes of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad finally have more room to work – an extra 10,000 square feet to be exact. In August, mechanics set ...
KOB 4

Cumbres and Toltec Railroad to add diesel engine next year

CHAMA, N.M. — The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, often regarded as a state treasure and a living history museum, is getting a modern upgrade. The traditionally coal-fired stream train brigade is ...
Trains on MSN

ScaleTrains HO scale EMD SD7 diesel locomotive

The ScaleTrains Electro-Motive Division SD7 HO scale (1:87.1) diesel locomotive is highlighted in this latest product review ...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

From LA to Chicago, Santa Fe Railroad was first to have diesel engines pull passenger cars

Americans heard the first rumble of a diesel locomotive trekking across the country in May 1936, when the Santa Fe Railroad’s Super Chief passenger train began operating between Los Angeles and ...