A donation from Metra to Railroading Heritage of Midwest America (RRHMA) is bringing a historic diesel locomotive to the ...

You gotta start somewhere. In this case, it’s the BNSF switchyard in Richmond, where the Richmond Pacific Railroad is testing the nation’s first “Tier 4” switch engine for certification. Tier 4 is a ...

Locomotives that run on diesel can be electrified. This would both cut CO 2 emissions and significantly reduce overall energy consumption, according to a new study. Researchers at SINTEF have now ...

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 ...

Learn more about the Athearn HO EMD SD40-2 and watch it operate on Model Railroader’s East Troy project layout.

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 ...

SPENCER — Train enthusiasts young and old were allowed to man the controls to an old diesel locomotive on Saturday as part of the North Carolina Transportation Museum’s “At the Throttle Diesel” event.

Southern California regional rail authority Metrolink has unveiled the first F125 Spirit diesel locomotive being built by Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) at its manufacturing plant in Muncie, Indiana, US.

Nestled near the northern border of Romania is a tiny little mocăniță (or narrow-gauge railway) that was once used for logging. Like many historic rail lines, it’s now a tourist attraction where steam ...