Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company, has developed a new battery-powered switcher locomotive, the EMD® Joule, working in collaboration with its South American customer Vale. Progress Rail anticipates ...

Five years after World War II ended, it became apparent to the railroads that steam locomotives were not the motive power of the choice. While a half dozen locomotive builders were assembling ...

Founded in l830, the Philadelphia-based Baldwin Locomotive Works grew into the world's largest steam locomotive builder. Baldwin locomotives ruled the rails of countries large and small in North and ...