Trainspotters, start your enegines

#electricvehicles #evs #trains #locomotives #railways #railroads #transportation #shipping #decarbonization #electrification #mining #miningnews #miningtechnology #brazil #usa #pittsburgh #pennsylvania #electrictransportation

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/07/17/wabtec-sends-electric-train-love-letter-to-worlds-largest-iron-mine/

The coolest project I've ever worked on has been open sourced!

https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/altrios.html

https://pypi.org/project/altrios/

https://github.com/NREL/ALTRIOS

ALTRIOS is a rust-backed python package that simulates and optimizes the rollout of locomotive powertrain technologies (e.g. battery electric locomotives, H2 fuel cell locomotives, biofuels, e-fuels) for economically feasible decarbonization of freight rail.

#rustlang #python #rail #locomotives #decarbonization #decarbonisation #FreightRail

A hot weekend in the #Highlands, where the preserved #Strathspey #Railway are having to use #diesel #locomotives instead of #steam to prevent lineside #fires. It's still a lovely trip, though, if you are in the #Aviemore area!
#Scotland

In a decision with far-reaching impacts for public health snd shipping, #California has become the first place in the world to order a phaseout of #diesel trucks and #locomotives. My latest Postcard from California column for The New Lede. https://www.thenewlede.org/2023/05/postcard-from-california-no-one-is-safe-state-banning-diesel-trucks/

Self-propelled electric railcars to replace diesel-electric locomotives

#trains #railways #electricvehicles #locomotives #trainspotting #railroad #railfreight #railwayindustry #railroads #railwaynews #autonomousvehicles #electrification

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/05/18/new-autonomous-battery-electric-trains-are-coming-for-your-diesel/

Self-propelled electric railcars to replace diesel-electric locomotives

#trains #railways #electricvehicles #locomotives #trainspotting #railroad #railfreight #railwayindustry #railroads #railwaynews #autonomousvehicles #electrification

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/05/18/new-autonomous-battery-electric-trains-are-coming-for-your-diesel/

The authors cover the old Merthyr Tramroads and the locomotives which traversed them in meticulous detail.

What stands out is the invention and imagination shown in the designs of the locomotives used, including a hybrid friction and rack & pinion engine!

See our review: ‘Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives’ by Gordon Rattenbury and M.J.T. Lewis

https://booksontheline.com/?p=1675

#bookreviews #RailwayHistory #Locomotives #Merthyr #Wales

The modern #AtlasV #rocket, designed by #LockheedMarting and operated by the United Launch Alliance or #ULA, has been called the #DialARocket for its ability to add capacity by adding solid rocket boosters like increasing steps on a #dial.
Unfortunately, Fox (the #photographer) hasn’t covered any #launches of the #Atlas V 421 variant with only 2 #SRB’s.
But instead, please view this #photograph of the Atlas V Mobile Launch Platform #MLP and 2 of the 4 SRBs on the rocket that launched #Curiosity with #humans for #scale as they secure the MLP and disconnect the #locomotives that moved it from the #VIF.
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/time-to-lean-heron-and-fox.html

Crappy grab photo of #amtrakcascades #Train! #516, morning Cascades service from Seattle, WA, USA to Vancouver, BC, Canada, taken from the parking lot of the Custer, Washington Post office. Feb 14, 2022. #amtrak #train #locomotives

Independent rail operator RegioJet a.s. orders 13 additional Alstom TRAXX locomotives.

Some will be used by RegioJet on routes in Central and Eastern Europe, others will go to the operator's new locomotive leasing pool.

https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/mobile/regiojet-kupuje-kolejne-traxxy-esk-drhy-wynajmuja-vectrony-111968.html

#regiojet #train #rail #transport #locomotives #traxx #alstom #leasing #europe #eu

1) Built in 1875 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company "Glenbrook" is a 2-6-0 steam locomotive.

2) Built in 1916 by Heisler Locomotive Works of Erie, Pennsylvania, the Bluestone Mining & Smelting Company No.1 is a 0-4-4-0 steam locomotive.

Both engines are part of the rolling stock at the Nevada State #Railroad #Museum in Carson City. (Photos: 7/1/2022.)

#Trains #SteamEngine #Locomotives #Photography #LinuxPhotography #Darktable

How #steam #locomotives were built in 1930s.

https://invidious.silur.me/watch?v=NPACAt8aE4U

Lovely picture of 'Pendyffryn', an 0-4-0 vertical boiler locomotive built to a gauge of 1ft 11.5in.

Built in 1897 by De Winton & Co of Caernarfon (1854b-1901) for the Pen-Yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry.

Purchased in 1965 and restored at the Brecon Mountain Railway where it is now based. At least 6 De Winton locomotive are known to have been preserved.

#NarrowGauge #RailwayHistory #Locomotives

Locomotives await.

We pass them.

6C76 1421 Wembley Receptions 1-7 to Whatley Quarry F Liner Hh

#loco
#locomotive
#locomotives
#railfreight
#train
#freightliner
#engine
#freight
#environmentfriendly
#Newbury
#networkrail

The structure of this book could not be more straightforward!

After a two page introduction every single Western Class locomotive is featured in order from D1000 Western Enterprise to 1073 Western Bulwark!

Our review: ‘Western Class Locomotives: A Tribute’ by Bernard Mills

#BookReview #Railway #Railways #RailwayHistory #Locomotives

https://booksontheline.com/?p=1645

An excellent balance between locomotive photographs and informative text. This book will appeal to enthusiats, railway modellers and anyone more generally interested in our industrial history.

Includes a number of South Wales locomotives such as the legendary Mardy Monster (one of the most powerful industrial steamengines ever built)!

Read our review (text or audio) of:
‘British Industrial Steam Locomotives’ by David Mather.

https://booksontheline.com/?p=370

#Railways #Steam #BookReview #Locomotives

Now this really is a book of two halves!

The first part on the history of Merthyr’s tramroad system was written by Gordon Rattenbury way back in 1987.

Dr Michael Lewis wrote the original locomotives article of Part 2 over a decade earlier in 1975!

They complement each other perfectly in this volume.

Our review: ‘Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads & their Locomotives’ by Gordon Rattenbury and M.J.T. Lewis.

https://booksontheline.com/?p=1675

#Merthyr #Locomotives #BookReview #Tramroads #RailwayHistory

A monochrome postcard-size photograph showing a view of the Great Western Railway engine No 3265 pulling the 2:10pm Harlech to Birmingham at Barmouth station in Merionethshire on 29 August 1937. Published and photographed by Ken Nunn, The Locomotive Club of Great Britain, No 6778. #GWR #GreatWesternRailway #Locomotives #Barmouth #KenNunn

RT @NHKWORLD_News
A group of Japanese rail enthusiasts have made a crowd-funded trip to #Ratchaburi province in central #Thailand to show local officials how to service a pair of struggling Japanese #locomotives.
Check out more short videos here: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/ataglance/

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RT @NHKWORLD_News
A group of Japanese rail enthusiasts have made a crowd-funded trip to #Ratchaburi province in central #Thailand to show local officials how to service a pair of struggling Japanese #locomotives.
Check out more short videos here: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/ataglance/
https://twitter.com/NHKWORLD_News/status/1613051384399630336