GE’s ES44C4 and ET44C4 locomotives were designed to coax the industry to ditch new-build DC traction road power ...

A Federal Railroad Administration study on mainline electrification recommends that the railroad industry develop a prototype ...

The 2025 edition of Railway Age’s Next-Gen Freight Rail (NGFR) conference offers a presentation focused on rapidly evolving ...

Dynamic braking advanced again when a "high capacity" brake was introduced during the DC locomotive high-adhesion era ...

AC traction locomotives use their traction motors as alternators, sending its voltage back through rectifying diodes in the locomotive's inverters to be converted to DC and sent to the DC link ...

The loco had four smaller-than-normal diesel traction motors that could be combined, but even then, it wasn’t done. To achieve variable torque, they employed superchargers driven by a set of ...