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| Companies (14) | |
| Freight (16) | |
| Locomotive (8) | |
| Railway (64) | |
Announced last year, the Minneapolis-based Coalition for Sustainable Rail CSR Project 130 is an attempt by international railway locomotive engineers
and two environmental research departments at the University of Minnesota to shape a 130mph"carbon neutral  steam locomotive.
too, might create if not a radically improved steam locomotive, then a better vacuum cleaner, mobile phone, electric plug or car.
000 to see how the beef-based fuel would fare in the 3, 200-horsepower engine of a P32-8 locomotive.
and analyze data on the locomotive's exhaust. Roy Deitchman, Amtrak vice president of environmental, health and safety, in a statement:
If the test shows this use of a renewable fuel in our locomotive is successful, its a home run for our passengers, for our partners and for the planet.
In rail, it's the locomotive itself, it's switching devices, it's diagnostics. I liken it to rail--we make the switches, not the rails or railroad ties.
Computers pull GPS data from railway locomotives, taking into account the weight and length of trains, the terrain and turns,
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