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 ...

Metrolink in 2017 began operating EMD F125 Tier 4 locomotives (download details below), which meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s “strictest standards,” it said, and significantly reduce ...

and we look forward to achieving Tier 4 emissions certification.” For the ECO line, Progress Rail and NSC have collaborated to repower 50 locomotives, since 2008. These new EMD ECO locomotives are ...

Southern California regional rail authority Metrolink has unveiled the first F125 Spirit diesel locomotive being built by Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) at its manufacturing ... Protection Agency (EPA) ...

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 ...

WOODLAND, Calif.--(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 ...

GE Transportation plans to build its Tier 4 Evolution Series locomotives at its U.S. locomotive manufacturing sites in Erie, PA and Fort Worth, TX. ERIE, Pa.—GE Transportation unveiled the ...

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.

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. KLW makes locomotives that meet Tier 4 emission standards. Tier 4 standards - the most strict standards yet - went into effect at the ...

EMD, founded in 1922, designs, manufactures and sells diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications. Greenbriar, Berkshire and unnamed parties acquired the manufacturer in ...

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.