CALGARY — Canadian Pacific has released a short video on its social media channels showing the first of its three hydrogen fuel-cell locomotives converted from diesels. You can see it here on Facebook, and here on Twitter. The railroad says the locomotive, built from a former SD40-2F and dubbed the H20EL (for “Hydrogen Zero-Emissions Locomotive”) has operated under its own power. CP launched the hydrogen program in late 2020 [see “Canadian Pacific announces plan …,” Trains News Wire, Dec. 18, 2020], and announced last November that it would be expanded to three units with the help of a grant from Emissions Reduction Alberta [see “CP to build additional hydrogen locomotives …,” News Wire, Nov. 1, 2021].
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