Metrolink's Board of Directors has authorized the purchase of EPA Tier 4 locomotives from Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), which it says will reduce locomotive emissions by 86%. The contract includes a ...

RPS’s broad-patented BATS (Blended After-Treatment System), as deployed on a revenue-service EMD F59PH diesel-electric, has produced “lower emissions and fuel consumption, and is less expensive than a ...

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 ... be ...

The so-called Tier 4 locomotives, which cost about $280 million, are the cleanest available in the nation and designed to emit up to 85% less air pollution than the older engines Metrolink has had ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) (NYSE:GWR) today announced that two new U.S. EPA Tier 4-compliant low-emission locomotives completed trials and are now in service on its subsidiary ...

Interestingly, Union Pacific had partnered with EMD in 2012 and invested $20 million to test advanced emission-reducing technologies in line with Tier 4 standards for freight locomotives.

Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), which established a joint venture with distribution group Barloworld this month, is planning to build rail locomotives ... and aluminium 2.4 times.

The electric motors that drive the vehicle will use alternating rather than direct current, as is becoming increasingly common on both GE’s and EMD’s North American locomotives. AC motors are ...

In 2009, EMD generated $1.8 billion revenue on sales of diesel-electric locomotives. The deal is expected to close by year-end. EMD will keep its CEO and remain in LaGrange, Ill. If you purchase a ...

General Electric, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of new locomotives in the US, has the first Tier 4-compliant diesel-electric locomotive in the country. The aptly-named "GE Evolution Series ...