America’s railroads are under pressure to reduce the tons of pollution their locomotives spew daily and to cut their fuel expenses as well. Can they do it? With the help of the “Green Goat” and ...

Brookville, Pa.-based Brookville Equipment Corp. said Monday, March 9, 2015 it "shipped an all-new highly-customized 88-ton diesel-hydraulic yard switching locomotive to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard ...

There’s a new animal roaming Norfolk International Terminal’s yard. The Green Goat, a hybrid locomotive used to push and pull rail cars throughout the terminal, arrived last month and soon will be ...

North American railway franchise Union Pacific has partnered with two Californian air-management districts to upgrade ten low-horsepower diesel-electric locomotives of its yard switching fleet, in a ...

Railpower Technologies Corp. is seeking financing for the retrofitting of its Green Goat yard switcher locomotives, which were recalled in June and will cost between $10 million and $13 million to fix ...

For Union Pacific, grants of more than $90 million have helped replace 121 dirtier locomotives. Those projects, covering 5 to 10 years, are expected to cut nitrogen oxides by more than 14,000 tons in ...

Sierra Railroad Company division Sierra Northern Railway (SNR) has announced the completion of testing for a four-axle hydrogen-fuelled, zero-emission switching locomotive. The testing took place at ...

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 ...