News photo: Wabtec battery-electric locomotive on the move

News photo: Wabtec battery-electric locomotive on the move

By David Lassen | August 30, 2021

FLXdrive unit to appear at event on future of railroading

 

Red and gray locomotive with red locomotive
Wabtec FLXdrive battery-electric demonstrator No. 3000 and ET44C6 demonstration No. 2044 await departure from Erie, Pa., on Friday, Aug. 27. (Stephan M. Koenig)

ERIE, Pa. — Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive is on the road again. The demonstrator unit returned to the company’s Erie factory after concluding BNSF Railway testing in California in April [see “Wabtec, BNSF conclude initial tests …,” Trains News Wire, April 30, 2021], left the factory on Friday in the company of ET44C6 demonstrator No. 2044, now wearing a red paint scheme similar to that of the battery unit. The two locomotives are bound for the Freight 2030 event set for Sept. 10 in Pittsburgh, which will look at the future of railroading including decarbonization efforts. Trains News Wire will provide coverage of the event.

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