William Wolfgang, the T's director of vehicle engineering, says that new battery-powered engine technology isn't sufficiently developed to be able to replace the T's aging fleet of diesel locomotives.

In early January 2026, Wabtec Corporation announced a follow-on US$386 million order from New York’s MTA for hybrid ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...

Much to delight of railway enthusiasts, diesel engines clag and snarl and belch out fumes, much to the consternation of just wanted to get to work on time. While the majority of high-speed railway ...

USA: New York MTA has exercised a $386m option for Wabtec to supply a further 45 R255 battery-diesel hybrid locomotives for ...

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 ...