USA: Plans have been unveiled for the development and testing of a prototype main line freight locomotive with a powered tender, which will be fuelled by renewable natural gas. RNG is a purified bioga ...

Russia: At the end of December, the first five-car train entered service on a route between Ekaterinburg and the town of Kamensk-Uralsky. Under the current contract, Russian Railways is to receive 22 ...

EUROPEAN Loc Pool (ELP) has ordered 10 EuroDual bi-mode locomotives from Stadler for delivery in 2025-26. The leasing company is currently awaiting a previously-ordered batch of 20 of the same type, w ...

TANZANIA: Tanzania Railways Corp is testing the first of 17 E6800 electric locomotives that Hyundai Rotem is supplying for the standard gauge railway project. In July 2021 TRC awarded the South Korean ...

UKRAINE: National railway Ukrzaliznytsia has used mostly domestic components to produce a grain hopper wagon which can operate on both the former USSR’s 1 520 mm broad gauge and the 1 435 mm standard ...