Increasingly stringent federal emission standards for diesel engines have become a major headache for trucking. Like most new technologies, the post-October 2002 emissions controls have their share of ...

You gotta start somewhere. In this case, it’s the BNSF switchyard in Richmond, where the Richmond Pacific Railroad is testing the nation’s first “Tier 4” switch engine for certification. Tier 4 is a ...

Diesel engines are some of the simplest combustion concepts in use today, with a design that has not changed much in half a century. But what has changed is the complexity of the systems that surround ...

It sounds like something that a state-of-the-art model railroad hobbyist might purchase–a wearable device that can control a diesel locomotive by remote control. But this is no toy. The device is a ...