A visit to Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard in Los Angeles always included a run by of its diesel locomotive paint track. It was the one place that the usual combined with the unusual, the largest ...

A hydraulic coupling of the diesel engine and drive wheels is possible and was briefly used in the 1960s on locomotives ...

Hopefully Union Pacific's testing of two different retrofit technologies for reducing emissions in older locomotives, an experimental "oxidation catalyst" filtering canister and a diesel ...