Back before we figured out that nuclear power isn’t the end-all-be-all, the United States government considered all manner of loony applications for nuclear fission. It figured we could blow up entire ...

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RENO, Nev. (AP) - Two historic locomotives that were part of the pioneering shift from steam-powered to diesel-electric trains in the mid-1900s are coming back to their home in a northeast Nevada ...

Union Pacific Railroad unveiled an advanced experimental locomotive at its J.R. Davis Yard in Roseville that will test three emissions-reducing technologies including exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), ...

BNSF Railway and Vehicle Projects LLC, a Denver company, announced they are developing an experimental hydrogen fuel cell switch locomotive. The U.S. Department of Defense and BNSF Railway are paying ...

Going way back in time, in 1966, traction motor power of North American diesel-electric locomotives was far less than that of Soviet Union electric locomotives. For example, individual traction motor ...

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