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Fortescue Metals Group will this month receive its first tranche of locomotives rebuilt by US rail giant Wabtec to provide greater efficiency and help meet the company’s aggressive emissions reduction targets.

Learn how Wabtec is using mixed reality technology to improve locomotive production processes in its Bengaluru and Bihar, India manufacturing facilities.

Union Pacific (UP), in partnership with Wabtec and Renewable Energy Group (REG), earlier this month reported starting a “trial of 100% renewable fuels as part of our comprehensive ESG initiative called Building a Sustainable Future 2030.”

Canada's railway giants, CN and CP, are testing battery and hydrogen locomotives in a move toward electric, zero-emissions freight rail. At least one smaller railway, Southern Railway of B.C., is working on hydrogen locomotive technology too. Here's a look at why they're electrifying and the technologies they're testing.

Learn how Wabtec's Smart HPT optimizes train performance for a given horsepower per ton target to effectively improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions.

Wabtec flexing its muscles – and horsepower – for the future of emission reduction with battery locomotives.

Following eight years of work with operators in Brazil’s rail market, Wabtec Corp. is debuting its new ES44ACi diesel-electric locomotive, with deliveries to Suzano, MRS and Rumo this month and next.

Wabtec is introducing a new heavy-haul locomotive model to Brazil’s freight rail market. The ES44ACi diesel-electric locomotive will first be delivered to Suzano, MRS and Rumo in the coming weeks.

Wabtec has been selected to modernize 330 GE Dash 9-44CW units for Norfolk Southern (NS). The new order will bring Wabtec’s total number of power upgrades for the Class I railroad to more than 950 upon completion of work in 2025.

Wabtec donated GECX No. 6002, which becomes the first modern A.C.-traction locomotive to be preserved in a museum. The locomotive was built in 1998 for Union Pacific as its No. 7511, and returned to GE to serve as part of its Engineering Test Fleet.

Starting in the second quarter, UP will be testing B20 biodiesel and R55 renewable diesel on Wabtec FDL engines operating in California, with plans to up the percentage of biofuels used as testing continues.

Wabtec is expanding its engine cooling product line to include aluminum. This move aligns the company with market trends and helps customers to maintain a competitive edge. New furnaces are being installed at the Jackson, TN and Northampton, UK facilities to support this strategy.

Locomotive builders and railroads, following the lead of carmakers and truck manufacturers, are turning to batteries big enough to power small towns as a way to curb carbon and diesel emissions, while maintaining a fuel efficiency edge.

The Port of Los Angeles has unveiled new features to its Port Optimizer™, the nation’s first and only port community system that allows shippers, cargo owners, terminal operators and others to better predict and plan cargo at the busiest trade gateway in the U.S.