Check out this article just published in Railway Age: Looking Beyond Diesel and see how OptiFuel Systems is developing alternative fuel technologies that can accommodate the varying needs of short line operations.

To determine what type of locomotive a short line or switching operation should pursue, companies need to assess several factors, according to OptiFuel’s CEO, Scott Myers “fuel savings and costs, the horsepower and tractive effort needed to run operations effectively, and the duty cycle. Which itself depends on how a company plans to run their locomotives.”

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