Starting this weekend, newly painted SD40-2 diesel locomotive #1776 will be featured on the Reading & Northern Railroad’s all ...

Newly painted SD40-2 diesel locomotive #1776 is being featured on the Reading & Northern Railroad’s all-day Pittston to Jim Thorpe round trip excursion trains for a limited time. This follows a ...

Locomotives that run on diesel can be electrified. This would both cut CO 2 emissions and significantly reduce overall energy consumption, according to a new study. Researchers at SINTEF have now ...

The January 2026 issue of Trains Magazine includes author Greg Richardson’s article on the development of positive train ...

After an absence of 27 years, one of the Isle of Wight's most iconic diesel locomotives has returned home, having been ...

“An unforeseen mechanical issue" was discovered during a test run of the steam locomotive Pere Marquette 1225 before the ...

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, ...

Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno reviews the Rapido Trains HO scale (1:87.1) General Electric C36-7 diesel ...

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

JSC Ukrzaliznytsia's fleet of electric locomotives is 5 times larger than its fleet of diesel locomotives. This makes ...