Commuters are still breathing high levels of toxic diesel pollution trapped inside Union Station, but long-stalled efforts to clean up Metra’s fleet of dirty locomotives could get a big boost next ...

California is taking aiming at dirty diesel exhaust from locomotives with new regulations aimed at getting operators to shift to cleaner locomotives. For 50 years, California has ratcheted up rules to ...

A diesel locomotive hauls cargo from the Port of Long Beach. California regulators are considering rules to slash air pollution from locomotives and transition them to zero-emission technology. (Luis ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The railroad ...

Locomotives remain a fast and efficient way to move cargo overland. The low rolling resistance of steel-on-steel will always beat rubber on road, the ability to pull long chains of freight cars, ...

In the 1950s, a new kind of locomotive made even extreme hills easy for trains to climb. But this extra-powerful engine came ...

Communities near railyards, ports and other freight corridors have long been hit hard by air pollution from dirty, old locomotives. These massive, track-mounted vehicles, which use a diesel generator ...