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Alstom Coradia iLint HFC (hydrogen fuel cell) multiple-unit RAILWAY AGE, FEBRUARY 2021 ISSUE: First steam. Then Electric. Then diesel. Then batteries. Next: Hydrogen fuel cells? Canada’s railroads were  the last to dieselize in 1960 when CN retired its white-trimmed, coal-burning Northerns and Canadian Pacific its grey-and-maroon, oil-burning Selkirks. Redemptively, Canada will be first in the decarbonization of today’s fleet of heavy-haul road locomotives.  In a grand, clean energy strategy published in mid-December, a brain trust of cross-sector Canadian savants predicted that hydrog...

Although not the first Tasmanian 12CSVT to be set aside for preservation - that honour goes to 2144 (ex ZC19 ex 1318) - the most significant of the extant Tasmanian 12CSVT's, 2118 (ex ZA6), has been delivered, by road, to it new home - the Tasmanian Transport Museum in Glenorchy. Coverage of its transport from Tasrail's East Tamar Jctn Workshops to the TTM at Glenorchy has been covered in detail, with photos, on the Facebook pages of the Tas. Transport Museum and Tasmanian Railway Group. Tasrail (ATN / PN) No. 2118, ex ANR (Tas) / TGR No. ZA6, is one of the most historically significant locom...

Progress Rail TALOS test train at TTCI. William C. Vantuono photo Requirements for safety-relevant Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) for train operators are becoming more common around the world. The evolution toward safety-relevant HMIs for train control is already well under way in Europe and Asia, most notably as part of the widespread adoption of the European Train Control System (ETCS), with more than 50,000 miles of the worldwide rail network equipped or contracted to be equipped with ETCS (8). While HMI safety requirements have not yet become widespread in North American rail applicati...