Tier 4 Low-Emission Locomotives Begin Work on California Northern Railroad
July 22 2019 - 4:01PM
Business Wire
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) (NYSE:GWR) today announced
that two new U.S. EPA Tier 4-compliant low-emission locomotives
completed trials and are now in service on its subsidiary
California Northern Railroad Company (CFNR).
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One of two new U.S. EPA Tier 4-compliant
low-emission locomotives now in service on the California Northern
Railroad (Photo: Business Wire)
The new locomotives were purchased in conjunction with $3.7
million in grant funding from California’s Bay Area Air Quality
Management District (Air District) through the Proposition 1B Goods
Movement Emission Reduction Program (GMERP), a state program aimed
at incentivizing owners of equipment used in freight movement to
upgrade to cleaner technologies. The Air District is the regional
agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine-county
San Francisco Bay Area region.
Built by Knoxville Locomotive Works in Tennessee, the two new
2,400-horsepower diesel locomotives use selective catalytic
reduction technology to meet the most stringent emissions
requirements set by the EPA. Their high-efficiency, 12-cylinder MTU
engines are expected to provide fuel savings of 25% and reduce
diesel emissions – carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxides of nitrogen
(NOx) – by 80% compared to the two circa-1976 locomotives being
replaced.
“Short line railroads such as the California Northern, which
provide the ‘first and last mile’ of freight service linking local
customers to the large national railroads, are small businesses
with duty cycles that don’t require brand new locomotives,” said
CFNR President Brad Ovitt. “We’re grateful to the Air District for
making the purchase of these two low-emission, state-of-the-art
locomotives feasible, as they provide benefits to the communities
served by the railroad that would not be possible for us to do on a
stand-alone basis. It’s a true win-win, public-private
partnership.”
“The Air District is on a course to be diesel-free by 2033 in
the Bay Area, and these cleaner engines will help the region reduce
diesel while newer diesel technology is being developed,” said Jack
Broadbent, executive officer of the Air District. “Reducing diesel
emissions is an essential element of the Air District’s continuing
efforts to protect public health in communities that are highly
impacted by the Bay Area’s freight movement infrastructure.”
CFNR serves businesses on 256 miles of track between Los Banos
and Tehama, Calif., transporting approximately 25,000 annual
carloads of diverse freight including agricultural products, animal
feed, beer and wine, chemicals, cheese, construction products,
lumber and steel.
About G&W
G&W owns or leases 120 freight railroads organized in eight
locally managed operating regions with 8,000 employees serving
3,000 customers.
- G&W’s six North American regions serve 41 U.S. states and
four Canadian provinces and include 114 short line and regional
freight railroads with more than 13,000 track-miles.
- G&W’s Australia Region serves New South Wales, the Northern
Territory and South Australia and operates the 1,400-mile
Tarcoola-to-Darwin rail line. The Australia Region is 51.1% owned
by G&W and 48.9% owned by a consortium of funds and clients
managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.
- G&W’s UK/Europe Region includes the U.K.’s largest rail
maritime intermodal operator and second-largest freight rail
provider, as well as regional rail services in Continental
Europe.
G&W subsidiaries and joint ventures also provide rail
service at more than 40 major ports, rail-ferry service between the
U.S. Southeast and Mexico, transload services, contract coal
loading, and industrial railcar switching and repair.
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Michael Williams, G&W Corporate Communications
1-203-202-8900 Web site: www.gwrr.com
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