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Fuel cells to power regional trainsets
Railway Gazette.com 24 Sep 2014

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Alstom Transport President Henri Poupart-Lafarge signed letters of intent with four German regional authorities to develop 'zero emission trains'[/center]


GERMANY: Alstom Transport hopes to have 40 fuel cell-powered regional trains in commercial service on regional lines in Germany by 2020 under an accord signed at the InnoTrans trade show in Berlin on September 24.

Under the letters of intent signed between Alstom, the Länder of Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Baden-Württemberg and the transport authority of Hesse, two prototype trains are to be developed by the end of 2018 for revenue service trials using modified Coradia Lint multiple-units. The powertrain will use hydrogen fuel cells, batteries and energy storage systems to replace a roof-mounted diesel powerpack, giving equivalent performance to an electric multiple-unit. While the fuel cells will feature ‘proven technology’ already deployed in the automotive sector, Alstom will provide the software, control and energy storage equipment. Citing commercial confidentiality, the company would not be drawn on the type of battery and energy storage tools to be adopted...

...Alstom claims the trains would be ‘completely emission free’,
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This was buried under all the news of the US bombing yet another foreign country. GO 'Murika!

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1. Hydrail

7 March 2013 by Stan Thompson

THUNDER BAY – Business – When I first read Russell Gold’s March 5, 2013, Wall Street Journal piece, “Berkshire’s BNSF Railway to Test Switch to Natural Gas,” I feared the news would make such a big splash that the hydrail boat might get capsized by it. But the longer I look the more persuaded I’ve became that hydrail—hydrogen fuel cell hybrid railroad propulsion technology—is more likely to ski on the wake of Buffet’s BNSF “gastrain” dreadnought than be swamped by it.

The world’s first full-scale hydrail locomotive was introduced by BNSF on June 29, 2009 at the Port of Los Angeles. Still in service, it remains the largest fuel cell artifact ever to move on land.

Hydrail development was funded by the US Department of Defense via a project championed by (now) Kansas Governor Sam D. Brownback.

Train of the Future

China has just rolled out its first hydrail locomotive (http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/95989749-1802531097.html — TV news video segment, preceded by ad). It’s a project of Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, Sichuan and it will be described by its creators in Toronto on 11 and 12 June, at the 8th International Hydrail Conference, http://www.hydrail.org ...

Full Article: http://www.netnewsledger.com/2013/03/07/hydrail-buffetbnsf-innovation-a-boost-to-technology/

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UoB Hydrogen Locomotive

Amplats testing fuel cell-powered loco at Rustenburg mine

The US could have been a leader in this tech. While the naysayers nay say, leaders in other countries with vision are making progress.