The westbound Cardinal passes Amtrak’s Chicago diesel maintenance facility Saturday, Jan. 11., 2025, with overhauled Superliner equipment from the Beach Grove (ind.) heavy maintenance facility coupled ...
A Wabtec R255 hybrid battery-diesel work locomotive for New York’s MTA testing on the track in Erie, Pennsylvania. Credit: Wabtec Corporation. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New ...
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York has given the green light to Wabtec's R255 hybrid battery-diesel work locomotives for its subway maintenance operations. This move is ...
The new additions to the maintenance fleet will reduce diesel emissions by using battery power while conducting work in the tunnels. “These hybrid work locomotives will enable the MTA to realize ...
It was renamed Electro-Motive Company (EMC) before General Motors acquired it in 1930, and it later became Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD). In 1924, EMC, as it was then called, created the first ...
Wabtec’s R255 hybrid locomotive has been approved by New York’s MTA for full use in subway maintenance. Wabtec PITTSBURGH — New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved the use of new ...
New energy locomotives can achieve low-carbon and zero carbon emissions, low-noise, and high-efficient operation, effectively solving the problems of “high fuel consumption, high emissions, high noise ...