A single modern diesel freight locomotive can deliver upwards of 50 tons of forward force (called tractive effort) into the rails, but it’s somehow able to do that through the tiny contact patches ...

a future that never came to pass against a backdrop of a railway that didn’t make it into the modern era. For fifteen minutes of heavy engineering from the days when diesel locomotives were new ...

The Class DD51 diesel-hydraulic locomotive was in service for nearly 60 years since the era of the former Japanese National Railways. The Class DD51 replaced steam locomotives as the workhorse of ...

The feat, now listed in the Malaysia Book of Records as the “First Locally Manufactured Locomotive for Export”, means Malaysia is now on the global rail map with its ability to export diesel ...

The UK's oldest working steam locomotive – Furness Railway No. 20 – will be appearing at a huge exhibition of trains and ...