BELGRAVE, Australia, Nov 2 (Reuters) - While the discovery of steam power 200 years ago drove the industrial revolution, the world long ago shunted most steam trains onto the sidings of history. But ...

Wabtec Corp., the owner of the former GE Transportation plant in Erie, has picked up another order for its newest product, the FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive. The company's last order, placed in ...

Fortescue, the Australian iron ore mining giant, recently welcomed electric locomotives powered by the world’s largest land-mobile batteries, the company said in a social media post. The locomotives ...

The AC44C6M locomotives will be used in Fortescue’s mining operations. Credit: Wabtec Corporation. Rail technology company Wabtec has secured a contract to upgrade locomotives for Australia-based ...

Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...

That's part of the appeal of Trainworks, the big new train-related attraction next to historic Thirlmere station about 90km southwest of Sydney. For years the site has housed a collection of steam and ...

Australia-based UGL and GE Transportation, a subsidiary of General Electric, have unveiled their new PowerHaul Series locomotive (PH37ACmai) at AusRail Plus 2011 in Brisbane, Australia. The ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A fire glows in a boiler, steam hisses, the arrow on a gauge starts to move – just after dawn, a famous Australian steam train slowly ...