The Illinois Terminal was an electric interurban line serving western Illinois down to the St. Louis area. In the mid-1950s ...

All diesel locomotive designs struggle with the ... drives exploit the beneficial torque characteristics of electric and hydraulic motors, but the mechanical gearbox isn’t quite done for.

Dynamic brakes are a supplemental braking system that is the conversion of a locomotive’s traction motors from electric motors to electric generators. This allows a train's speed to be adjusted by the ...

MTA notes the new locomotives will travel much farther under electric power than the current fleet of locomotives they will ...

If you’re a seasoned international rail traveler you will no doubt have become used to the various sounds of electric locomotives and ... and their associated motor control schemes, but unless ...

The eco-friendly upgrade includes regenerative braking, which captures energy during the train’s 64-mile journey across ...

ASTANA. Nov 5 (Interfax) - National railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy JSC (KTZ) and French engineering group Alstom Transport SA have signed an agreement on the production of a new type of ...