General Motors tested several new diesel engine designs during the early 1930s. One successful result was the Winton 201 series, a two-stroke eight-cylinder that produced 600 hp at 720 rpm.

GM gets Amtrak locomotive order: General Motors Corp. won a $46 million order for 21 diesel locomotives from the National Railroad Passenger Corp., commonly known as Amtrak. GM’s Electro-Motive ...

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.

Wabtec already has built a battery-powered locomotive prototype. The Pittsburgh company said it was used with two diesel locomotives in a California test earlier this year that cut emissions by 11%.

By 1950 the general form of a diesel locomotive with a frame containing the power plant supported by bogies carrying traction equipment was well established, but the Fell eschewed this layout in ...

The first Class 59 (59001) could be returned to its original silver and blue Foster Yeoman livery by its current owner ...

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 ...