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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