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Pike Research forecasts accelerating hybrid locomotive sales from 2015-2020

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In 2001, Railpower launched the first hybrid electric switching locomotive in North America, using battery energy storage, called the Green Goat. In North America, a high-profile hybrid locomotive product (Railpower’s Green Goat, earlier post ) faced a serious setback in the mid-2000s that still haunts the industry today.

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