freight locomotives

How Diesel Locomotives Work | HowStuffWorks

Diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines, and when moving literal tons of freight or passengers, efficiency is paramount. Train manufacturer CSX estimates that their fleet moves 1 ton (0.9 metric tons) of cargo an average of 492 miles (791 kilometers) per 1 gallon (4 liters) of fuel, making locomotives four times as efficient as …

Indian Railways orders 1,200 freight locos from Siemens

Tue 17 Jan 2023 — updated 8 Oct 2023. Siemens Mobility is to build 1,200 electric locomotives for Indian Railways, making this the single largest locomotive order in the company''s history and its largest order of any kind in India. Under the terms of the contract, valued at around €3bn (£2.7bn), Siemens Mobility will design, manufacture ...

Traxx locomotives: Superior performance in every environment

Alstom''s Traxx Hauler™ locomotives are among the most powerful in the world, capable of hauling up to 10,000 tonnes and they run at up to 120 km/h. They can be built for different railway gauges, standards (GOST, TSI, India, China, etc.) and catenary voltages, as well as for long international journeys or under extreme weather conditions.

Wabtec and Roy Hill Unveil the First FLXdrive Battery Locomotive

World''s first 100% battery-powered, heavy-haul freight locomotive for mainline service ERIE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2023-- Wabtec and its launch customer, Roy Hill, a leading iron ore miner majority owned by Australia''s most successful private company, Hancock Prospecting, celebrated the debut of the FLXdrive battery …

FFL4E

FFL4E (Future Freight Locomotive for Europe) aims at developing key technologies for future energy efficient freight locomotives, allowing highest operational flexibility and providing attractive and competitive rail freight …

California passes rule to drastically cut locomotives'' emissions

Joanna Marsh. · Friday, April 28, 2023. The California Air Resources Board has passed a rule regulating locomotives'' emissions. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) Operators of passenger and freight locomotives in California will eventually need to move away from diesel locomotives and toward "zero-emission …

Iranian freight locomotive unveiled

May 24, 2024. The domestically manufactured Iranian freight locomotive (MAP30 locomotive) and the MP610 diesel engine were unveiled by Mapna Group during a ceremony attended by senior Iranian officials held on May 13, 2024 Alborz Province. The ceremony was attended by the Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade, Abbas …

Heavy Haul Locomotives | Wabtec Corporation

ES44AC Locomotive. Wabtec''s most service-proven and cost-effective locomotive for heavy-haul applications around the world.

Japan Freight Railway Company

Japan Freight Railway Company (, Nippon Kamotsu Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha), or JR Freight (JR, Jeiāru Kamotsu), is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide throughout Japan. Its headquarters are in Shibuya, Tokyo near Shinjuku ...

List of British Rail modern traction locomotive classes

Class / number (s) Information. Channel Tunnel. Class 22 (II) SNCF Class BB 22200 class dual voltage electric locomotives used for freight duties through the Channel Tunnel by Railfreight Distribution during 1994–95, prior to the availability of the dedicated Class 92 locomotives. Allocated as Class 22 under TOPS.

Rail freight transport

A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons (International Union of Railways) hauled by one or more locomotives on a railway, transporting cargo all or some of the way …

Freight train

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Freight trains are almost universally powered by locomotives. Historically, steam locomotives were predominant, but beginning in the 1920s diesel and electric locomotives displaced steam due to their higher reliability, cleaner emissions, and lower costs.

Category:Freight locomotives

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New climate-friendly locomotive fleet | DB Cargo

DB Cargo, Europe''s largest freight operating company, already uses climate-friendly electric locomotives for 95% of its tractive output in the railway network. Soon, bi-mode or hybrid locomotives will handle shunting at freight yards and transport along the last mile to the customer. When transported by rail, freight has an 80% smaller …

EGEB: GM and Wabtec will develop electric freight locomotives

Wabtec developed its FLXdrive prototype (pictured above), and claims it''s the world''s first fully electric freight locomotive. The 430,000-pound FLXdrive uses 18,000 lithium-ion battery cells.

CRRC Zhuzhou unveils 28.8MW electric freight …

The locomotives are capable of top speeds of 120km/h and can manage gradients of up to 1.2% at capacity. The locomotive is based on the China Railways HXD1 two-section freight locomotive, …

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IRT: A Win for Health, the Environment, and Productivity. Until now, locomotive operators had to choose between technology that offered a cost-effective solution or technology that met corporate carbon-reduction goals. IRT''s ATLAS (Advanced Technology Lithium-ion Adaptive System) provides an opportunity to achieve both – zero …

New Class I locomotive orders trickle in

It''s been three years since the railroad industry has had a new-build six-axle freight locomotive order for a Class I railroad. Precision Scheduled Railroading, a glut of stored locomotives, and the desire to rebuild instead of build, has kept railroads on the sidelines in terms of new power. Progress Rail''s last new six-axle order was in ...

Diesel Locomotives | The Railway Technical Website

A fuel tank is also essential. It is interesting to note that the modern diesel locomotive produces about 35% of the power of a electric locomotive of similar weight. Figure 1: A BNSF diesel electric locomotive a GE …

Who has new locomotive power in 2024?

Locomotive power: One of each ET44ACHs and ES44ACHs (Tier 4 credit) locomotives for BNSF sit at Wabtec''s Ft. Worth, Texas, facility on Jan. 23, 2024. Travis Berryman. Someone turned on the new locomotive faucet, but its just a slow drip right now. For several years no new six-axle freight locomotives have been built for North …

Future Freight Loco for Europe | TRIMIS

The target is to shift the road freight volumes for distances beyond 300 km to other modes in the range of 30% and 50% by the years 2030 and 2050 respectively. In this context, the FFL4E project (Future Freight Locomotive for Europe) aims at developing key technologies for future energy efficient freight locomotives, allowing highest ...

Freight train

A Canadian National Railway freight train with three locomotives in the Canadian Rockies A freight train, also called a goods train or cargo train, is a railway train that is used to carry cargo, as opposed to passengers eight trains are made up of one or more locomotives which provide propulsion, along with one or more railroad cars (also known as wagons) …

CN purchases FLXdrive battery-electric freight locomotive

CANADIAN National (CN) has ordered a 2.5MW FLXdrive battery-electric freight locomotive from Wabtec, the first 100% battery heavy-haul locomotive in North America. Wabtec says the next-generation FLXdrive technology can reduce fuel consumption and emissions by up to 30%. The locomotive will be delivered in 2023 and …

CSX to field-test hydrogen-powered locomotive

CSX unveiled its first hydrogen-powered locomotive on Tuesday following a partnership with CPKC designed to foster innovation and a clean environment. According to a press release from CSX, the hydrogen locomotive was converted from an existing diesel locomotive using a conversion kit developed by CPKC. This allowed the …

From Steam to Green: The History and Evolution of Locomotives

These two locomotives — Central Pacific''s "Jupiter" (pictured above) and Union Pacific''s No. 119 (pictured at the top of the page) — are critical to railroad history. When they met at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, the dream of a transcontinental railroad became a reality. UP No. 119 - American Type. Length: 41'' 10 ...

Locomotive

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There are three main uses of locomotives in rail transport operations: for hauling passenger trains, freight trains, and for switching (UK English: shunting). Freight locomotives are normally designed to deliver high starting tractive effort and high sustained power. This allows them to start and move long, heavy trains, but usually comes at the cost of relatively low maximum speeds. Passenger locomotives usually develop lower starting tractive …

ProgressRail | Locomotives

Power, Performance, and Innovation are the driving factors that have made Progress Rail''s EMD brand the premier provider of diesel electric locomotive technology for nearly 90 years. We continue this proud history by …

New analysis strategy for hydrail freight locomotives: Case study …

Abstract. This is a communication from a case study of twelve Brazilian freight transportation railroads showing the feasibility of hydrogen-powered locomotives over diesel-powered locomotives. Load increase models are made up to 2035 to project the performance of locomotives and their impacts on these railroads.

List of locomotives in China

179 · The first steam locomotive in China is thought to be a 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm) gauge …

Indian Railways places order for 9 000 hp electric freight locomotives …

INDIA: Indian Railways has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract to supply and maintain 1 200 electric freight locomotives. Intended for use on the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and on steeply graded routes, these will have the ability to haul 4 500 tonne double-stack container trains at 75 km/h on 1 in 200 gradients, raising the …