About nine months ago, when his young grandson told Leo Bouquet that he wanted a train, Bouquet decided to make it happen. With emphasis on the words “make it.” Bouquet’s idea of a train wasn’t a ...

General Motors Co. and Wabtec Corp. have signed a nonbinding agreement to build locomotive engines using the automaker’s Ultium electric battery and its Hydrotec hydrogen fuel-cell system, the ...

Union Pacific (UP) on April 29 released its annual Building America Report, highlighting progress on key goals, including safety and sustainability, as well as the development and testing of a new ...

A locomotive engine of historic significance is on display at the Crow Wing County Fairground. Discussions have taken place to preserve that part of Brainerd’s railroad history by erecting a roof over ...

ELY, Nev. (KTNV) — In one Nevada community, the history of the American railway is kept alive and well. "Our trains are 100 and 150 years old, and that's what we run. We have people who will reserve ...

Wabtec Corp., the owner of the former GE Transportation plant in Erie, has picked up another order for its newest product, the FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive. The company's last order, placed in ...

Founder and ingenious engineer Tripp Aquadro makes wooden model kits so people can build their own locomotives at home. (via ...

In principle, the idea was commendably simple. George Stephenson and his son, Robert, would be set up in business to build locomotives for the Stockton and Darlington Railway. In practice, it became a ...

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