Quick takes, analyses and macro-level views on all contemporary economic, financial and political events. The Indian Railways must go ahead and scrap the plans for a diesel locomotive manufacturing ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, are on strike, asking for familiar items like ...

In a landmark achievement for India’s manufacturing sector, the Diesel Locomotive Factory (DLF) in Marhowra, Bihar, has secured its first major export order. The facility—a joint venture between ...

Warsaw-based Wuzetem manufactures precision fuel injectors for vehicles and is growing its presence in US markets for ...

In the fourth announcement of its kind this week, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels joined executives from rail industry supplier, Progress Rail Services, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., to announce the ...

We all know General Motors as an automaker. However, GM also has a storied past in various other industries that many might not consider. In the 1930s, GM's Electro-Motive Division began producing ...

OMAHA, Neb. – The diesel-burning locomotive, the workhorse of American railroads since World War II, will soon begin burning natural gas – a potentially historic shift that could cut fuel costs, ...

NOUADHIBOU, Mauritania--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. (EMD) today announced it has signed a contract with SOCIETE NATIONALE INDUSTRIELLE ET MINIERE (SNIM) to manufacture a quantity of ...

While the documentation of diesel locomotives is extensive, Walter Simpson’s new book brings a fresh perspective to the literature. The book is an excellent primer on diesel locomotives that is ...

Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, are on strike, asking for familiar items like better pay, voting rights, and health care benefits. They’re also asking for one unique condition: to shift their ...