At the time, diesel-hydraulic locomotives were the best way for a railroad not named Union Pacific to crank up the power. But it didn’t take long for America’s locomotive builders to catch up.

By 1950 the general form of a diesel locomotive with a frame containing the power plant supported by bogies carrying traction equipment was well established, but the Fell eschewed this layout in ...

Brookville, Pa.-based Brookville Equipment Corp. said Monday, March 9, 2015 it "shipped an all-new highly-customized 88-ton diesel-hydraulic yard switching locomotive to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard ...

Running the locomotives on batteries would—in addition to the environmental benefits—eliminate the need to change locomotives at the terminal and avoid the problems that overhead lines cause.

Voith, which supplies Vossloh’s hydraulic drives, now produces full-scale diesel-hydraulic locomotives itself. The locomotive operation has also suffered from the economic downturn.

Representatives from Cuban Union Railways (UFC) and Lyudinovo Locomotive Works (LTZ), Russia, together with other suppliers within the Sinara group have begun to finalize the specifications for a new ...

The Brandenburg-based private rail operator Havellandische Eisenbahn AG (HVLE) has ordered two Maxima 40 CC locomotives from Voith Turbo Lokomotivtechnik and thus made a systems decision in favor of ...

It will be the first time a Class 52 ‘Western’ diesel-hydraulic locomotive has visited Swanage since 2011 and the first time a Class 52 ‘Western’ No. D1015 ‘Western Champion’ has ...