Prospective buyers interested in the “gently used” 135-ton diesel locomotives posted on the Caltrain website are out of luck since the Bay Area transit agency finalized the sale. Caltrain is sending ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. Since Caltrain has switched to electric trains, their retired diesel fleet will be sent to Lima, Peru, ...

Kansas City is home to the second-largest rail hub in the United States, and is facing a pivotal moment that will either protect or continue to endanger the health of many of our residents. The ...

California withdrew Tuesday its request that the federal government allow the state to enforce rules limiting emissions from diesel-powered trains and big rigs in anticipation of the Trump ...

San Jose state Sen. Dave Cortese has introduced a bill to prevent state agencies selling decommissioned diesel trains for reuse after Caltrain authorized the sale of part of its diesel-powered fleet ...

Transportation is responsible for one-quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. While companies have touted electric vehicles and sustainable aviation fuel as ways to cut emissions from air and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Caltrain is going electric with the roll out of its new fleet of rail cars. But, what does that mean for the gas-powered trains? If you're a train enthusiast, you may have the ...

The Long Island Rail Road will not be able to install batteries on existing trains so that they can operate where tracks are not electrified, as it had hoped to do. Fifteen months after the LIRR began ...

Sitting inside a diesel train, you can be exposed to more pollution than if you were standing next to a busy street at rush hour. The trains are still common—especially in the U.S. But in Germany, one ...