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With Canadian Pacific Railway less than two weeks away from beginning a 90-day Green Goat™ trial, RailPower Technologies Corp. has lined up another Class I to test its hybrid locomotive. On Jan. 21, RailPower announced CSX Transportation will test three of the 2,000-horsepower switchers for 90 days and retain a lease option to conduct an additional three-month trial.
"We will get much better data by using three Green Goat switchers, which will inevitably have varying duty cycles during the six-month trial period," said Mike Munley, CSXT assistant vice president of locomotive operations, in a prepared statement. "Analysis will focus on fuel efficiency and productivity so we can compare Green Goats with conventional switchers … from a business and environmental perspective."
Featuring 130-horsepower diesel generators and long-life recyclable batteries, Green Goats are designed to reduce NOx and diesel-particulate emissions 80 percent to 90 percent, and fuel consumption, about 50 percent to 80 percent, compared with a conventional switcher.
"CSX has over 600 locomotives in switcher service, so this trial is a major potential opportunity for our technology," said RailPower President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Maier in a prepared statement.
Last year, Union Pacific Railroad and short line Pacific Harbor Line Inc. tested Green Goats; this month, Burlington Northern Santa Fe subsidiary Los Angeles Junction Railway Co. began a 30-day trial. Also earlier this month, RailPower sold two Green Goats to CANAC Inc., and one Green Goat and six 1,000-horsepower Green Kids™ to RailServe Inc.
1/22/2004
Rail News: Mechanical
CSXT the third Class I to kick Green Goat's tires
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With Canadian Pacific Railway less than two weeks away from beginning a 90-day Green Goat™ trial, RailPower Technologies Corp. has lined up another Class I to test its hybrid locomotive. On Jan. 21, RailPower announced CSX Transportation will test three of the 2,000-horsepower switchers for 90 days and retain a lease option to conduct an additional three-month trial.
"We will get much better data by using three Green Goat switchers, which will inevitably have varying duty cycles during the six-month trial period," said Mike Munley, CSXT assistant vice president of locomotive operations, in a prepared statement. "Analysis will focus on fuel efficiency and productivity so we can compare Green Goats with conventional switchers … from a business and environmental perspective."
Featuring 130-horsepower diesel generators and long-life recyclable batteries, Green Goats are designed to reduce NOx and diesel-particulate emissions 80 percent to 90 percent, and fuel consumption, about 50 percent to 80 percent, compared with a conventional switcher.
"CSX has over 600 locomotives in switcher service, so this trial is a major potential opportunity for our technology," said RailPower President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Maier in a prepared statement.
Last year, Union Pacific Railroad and short line Pacific Harbor Line Inc. tested Green Goats; this month, Burlington Northern Santa Fe subsidiary Los Angeles Junction Railway Co. began a 30-day trial. Also earlier this month, RailPower sold two Green Goats to CANAC Inc., and one Green Goat and six 1,000-horsepower Green Kids™ to RailServe Inc.
