MUNCIE, Ind. -- Caterpillar Inc. announced plans Friday to start building diesel-electric locomotives in a vacant former transformer factory in eastern Indiana, potentially hiring 650 workers in the ...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. says its Alabama-based railroad service unit will spend $820 million cash to acquire locomotive maker Electro-Motive Diesel. Caterpillar says ...

Caterpillar Inc.’s CAT arm, Progress Rail, BNSF Railway Company, and Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation CVX have teamed up to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell locomotive ...

Progress Rail will invest $50 million to convert an Indiana facility Progress Rail Services intends to rehab an idle manufacturing plant in Muncie, Ind., as a facility for assembling locomotives, in a ...

Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE:BRK.A) locomotive division, BNSF Railway, one of the world’s biggest consumers of diesel, confirmed Wednesday that it will undergo a pilot this year where its freight trains ...

The aim is to showcase the hydrogen fuel’s viability and performance by checking if it can be utilised as an alternative to traditional fuels for line-haul rail. Credit: Shelley Pauls on Unsplash.

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. High-performance passenger locomotives that Illinois plans ...

After years of delays, the Pilbara's largest carbon emitters are testing greener ways to haul iron ore, and Andrew Forrest has now joined their ranks.