Initially, tractive effort at low speeds was the name of the game for these locomotives when climbing steep grades with a drag freight in tow. By the 1930s, horsepower at higher speeds became ...
Today, Clayton Equipment is one of the UK's last domestically owned locomotive manufacturers. Clayton has had many guises and owners in its near century of existence. Locomotives it built replaced the ...
Freight trains are also capable of transporting shipping containers. Depending on a country's loading gauge, these containers could be double-stacked, which is common in the US, for example, but not ...