Locomotive

Our annual Motive Power Review gives you information you can’t find anywhere else: an exclusive listing of every new locomotive built in North America. In addition to the Motive Power Review, you’ll find feature stories including: -Metra Muscle: see the motive power that moves 300,000 Chicagoland commuters each weekday. -Canyon Country: Drew Halverson explores the spectacular Thompson River Canyon where modern motive power toils in some of the most forbidding and beautiful landscapes in North America. -A Century of South Shore Freight: Chicago South Shore & South Bend celebrates 100 years of hauling freight on one of the nation’s most successful interurban lines. -And many more!

Locomotive

JDI

JDI’s prime mover • True joy was in the details

LOWS AND HIGHS • Sales of new freight power are flat, passenger sales hold steady

The big six fleets by the numbers: all 25,739 locomotives

13th annual motive power survey • Do we have a locomotive as well as a missile lag?

DIESEL dynasty • Exploring the origins of the General Electric 7FDL diesel engine

The FDL advantage • Wabtec-GE’s legacy engine keeps going

The unknown known • Old diesels, new short lines — and one unexpected survivor of the long-gone Milwaukee Road east of the Cascades

10 distinctive diesels • Concerning some favorites — both famous and unremarked

35 Series stronghold • Ann Arbor’s affection for EMD 35s lives on

Cowl curtain call • Bidding farewell to the General Electric Dash 8-40CM

U-Series countdown • Where are they? A North American census of Erie-built survivors

Trona • Jurassic Park for old EMDs

What’s in a name? • A young writer and a moniker that stuck