A battery-powered era is dawning on the Grand Canyon Railway. The whistle echoes across the high desert as the vintage ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a measure Monday that will ban public rail agencies from selling their oldest diesel ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. Since Caltrain has switched to electric trains, their retired diesel fleet will be sent to Lima, Peru, ...

Locomotives remain a fast and efficient way to move cargo overland. The low rolling resistance of steel-on-steel will always beat rubber on road, the ability to pull long chains of freight cars, ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI — A locomotive that played a critical part of an Ottawa County coal power plant that’s closing is one of the pieces of the plant finding new life. For decades, a yellow gigantic ...

A new study finds that diesel trains may expose passengers to elevated levels of certain pollutants, especially if they are sitting directly behind the locomotive -- these commuters breathe exhaust ...

Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner passenger trains, which run through Southern California, are now operating on renewable diesel in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The renewable diesel is made ...

A new study from U of T Engineering finds that diesel trains may expose passengers to elevated levels of certain pollutants, especially if they are sitting directly behind the locomotive. "Imagine ...