Wabtec Corp. has announced four new orders worth more than $2.5 billion. The deals include a $1.2 billion contract with Union Pacific for the largest locomotive modernization in rail history. Other ...

CSX Transportation will buy 100 new locomotives, upgrade 50 more and purchase a suite of digital services in a $670 million deal with Wabtec Corp. announced late Monday afternoon. The new locomotives ...

It was the 1950s, a transitional postwar era when road transportation was still picking up pace, and railways did the heavy lifting. Steam engines were on the way out as diesel locomotives gained a ...

Last month, officials at the Port of Albany celebrated the arrival of its newest locomotive #2502 with state Department of Transportation Commissioner Marie Therese Dominguez and dignitaries from ...

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Railroad operator Union Pacific (UNP.N), opens new tab and locomotive parts maker Wabtec (WAB.N), opens new tab signed an agreement worth $1.2 billion to modernize the railroad’s ...

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Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with an additional date for the Ogden, Utah, stop initially omitted by Union Pacific. (NEXSTAR) – The wait is over, sort of. Union Pacific has announced the ...

Rolling Stock Solutions is rebuilding a fleet of F40 locomotives to serve as a lease fleet for power-hungry regional/commuter rail agencies. Think of a North American passenger train during the final ...

(NEXSTAR) — The ground rumbles. A billowing cloud of steam forms in the sky. Then suddenly, the 1.2 million-pound locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 is pulling into a station near you. It won’t be ...

A man stands next to Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 in 2014 in Pomona, Calif., where the locomotive had been for 20 years at the RailGiants Train Museum. The 1.2 million pound behemoth made the ...

(NEXSTAR) – There will be countless celebrations this year in honor of America’s semiquincentennial (aka, its 250th anniversary), but none may be as massive as a 1.2 million-pound locomotive rolling ...

The MTA signed off on a $386 million hybrid locomotive order by tacking it onto an existing deal, continuing a pattern of ballooning contract modifications on the taxpayers’ dime that dodge public ...