emd passenger locomotives

“Our entry for this award is a thank you to them for their vision and willingness to do things differently. It’s also a thank you to BEIS for the courage and far-sightedness they have shown in working constructively with industry to fit their approach to the needs and circumstances of UK manufacturing.” When tractors were first developed, they used enormous steam engines which were notoriously unreliable and challenging to maintain. These were phased out round the turn in the 20th century and substituted with internal combustion engines that have been more compact yet still powerful and ran on the variety of fuels including kerosene, ethanol and gasoline. By the 1960s many of these engines were phased out and only more effective internal combustion engines that ran on diesel and after this, biodiesel.