locomotive

With 10 Years Of “Clean Trucks Program,” Los Angeles & Long Beach Ports Report Cleaner…

7 years ago Nicolas Zart 0 Comments

Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, together have the second busiest port in the US. Both harbors are next to cement factories and petroleum refineries. Trucks coming in and out of the harbor on the always congested 710 highway belch and spew dirty diesel particulates in the neighboring community. In fact, kindergartens and schools conveniently located next to the highway are the hardest hit. Child asthma has skyrocketed over the decades, to the point where these children will never have fully developed lungs.

First Hydrogen-Powered Locomotive Prototype

13 years ago Joshua S Hill 2 Comments

  Engineering students alongside staff at the University of Birmingham in the UK have designed and built the first prototype hydrogen-powered locomotive to operate in the country, which was recently tested at the Stapleford Miniature Railway in Leicestershire as part of a competition led by the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. The … [continued]

World’s First Carbon-Neutral Higher-Speed Locomotive

13 years ago Joshua S Hill 25 Comments

  The Coalition for Sustainable Rail (CSR) announced Tuesday plans to create the world’s first carbon-neutral higher-speed locomotive. The plan is simple: “create the world’s cleanest, most powerful passenger locomotive, proving the viability of solid biofuel and modern steam locomotive technology.” The CSR, a collaboration of the University of Minnesota’s … [continued]