And – thankfully for the travelling public – modern locomotives and units don’t tend to clatter-clat as much these days. Here we round up the 10 fastest diesel locomotives ever.

a future that never came to pass against a backdrop of a railway that didn’t make it into the modern era. For fifteen minutes of heavy engineering from the days when diesel locomotives were new ...

43159 arrived at the Great Central Railway by road, rather than rail A record-breaking diesel locomotive is being brought back into service after sitting in storage for two years. In its glory ...

Head-end power can be directly driven from the diesel engine via a drive shaft or in the case of more modern locomotives, ...

TASS/. Russian Railways and Transmashholding (TMH) will develop a new electric locomotive and a new diesel locomotive for the Eastern Range railroad, Russian Railways said on their official ...

The Class DD51 diesel-hydraulic locomotive was in service for nearly 60 years since the era of the former Japanese National Railways. The Class DD51 replaced steam locomotives as the workhorse of ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.