General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division modernized the railroad industry with its revolutionary diesel engines and diesel-electric locomotives. Rocky Rotella Writer Courtesy of General Motors ...

New Jersey Transit relies on more than 20 old-school diesel engines, including the United States’ oldest locomotive in ...

After witnessing the assembly of its turbo 186-liter V-16 diesel engine, we take a test drive at the helm of General Motors' Electro-Motive SD-60 locomotive.

The Athearn Genesis HO GP40-2L diesel locomotive, based on a prototype built by General Motors Diesel Division, recently ...

General Motors sold EMD to Greenbriar Equity and Berkshire Partners in 2005. In 2010, the company was sold again to Progress Rail—which Caterpillar Inc. acquired in 2006—and renamed Electro-Motive ...

In the 1980s, EMD (at the time, the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, now Electro-Motive Diesel, a division Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Company), teamed with Siemens to develop six-axle ...

General Motors Co. declared its intention on Tuesday to parlay the batteries originally meant for its electric cars into a new role as an all ... is also being tested for freight locomotives.