Speaking at an American Public Transportation Association (APTA) conference in San Francisco a week or so back, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed light rail, commuter rail and other public transit as a way to save 1.4 billion gallons of gasoline per year.
Speaker Pelosi went on to talk about how high speed rail in California will [...]
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It’s been a while since I’ve talked about hydrail (hydrogen railway) technology. But, talked about or not hydrogen trains keep on rolling (as I was graciously reminded by Hydrail.org Chairman Stan Thompson). In fact, the Fourth International Hydrail Conference is rolling right into Valencia, Spain on June 9, 2008 to discuss advances in fuel cell [...]
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The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF) is developing a hydrogen fuel cell switch train in Kansas to reduce emissions and as an alternative to similar locomotives powered by fossil fuels. The project is in collaboration with Vehicle Projects LLC. Besides its traditional use, the hydrogen fuel cell switch train can also be used for [...]
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Ontario, Canada and Bombardier Transportation are in talks to develop a hydrogen train up in the Great White North. In three years time, when the prototype hydrogen train is completed it is expected to run on the Toronto GO Transit system.
Premier Dalton McGuinty made the announcement about the fuel cell train a couple of days [...]
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The first announcement for the Third International Hydrail Conference stated that it would be held in Bergamo, Italy on June 25 - 26, 2007. The world’s first and only hydrogen train conference has now been updated and rescheduled to being held in Salisbury, North Carolina on August 13 - 14, 2007.
The First Hydrail International Conference [...]
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East Japan Railway (JR) has just demonstrated the world’s first hydrogen hybrid commuter train to awaiting eyes. This means that JR East has jumped ahead of Tokyo’s Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) in bringing a hydrogen railway train (hydrail) to market.
JR East’s New Energy Train (NE Train) has two 65kw PEM fuel cells and can [...]
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In 1956, Johnny Cash heard the train a coming from his prison cell as he sang “Folsom Prison Blues.” Now, 50 years later, trains have changed a bit from the coal-eating, smoke chugging locomotive that Johnny must have witnessed.
Today, several companies are developing hydrogen fuel cell trains a coming down the track. One such company [...]
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