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Article: What kind of fuel am I?(Rail Update)
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- Railway Age
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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An international consortium is developing a 120-ton, 1 MW (1,300-hp) locomotive that will be a retrofit of a U.S. Army diesel-electric EMD GP10. The five year, $12 million project, which commenced May 27, "will develop and demonstrate the first fuelcell-powered locomotive for military and commercial railway applications," according to Arnold R. Miller, Ph.D., of non-profit Denver, Colo.-based Fuelcell Propulsion Institute (www.fuelcellpropulsion.org).
The project is led by Vehicle Projects LLC, Denver, an affiliate of the Institute, and is funded and administered by the U.S. Department of Defense Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), National ...