(Source: Canadian Press, September 27, 2012)
MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway is exploring whether its feasible to use cheap and relatively clean natural gas to power its trains instead of diesel. To start out, CN has retrofitted two of its existing diesel-fired locomotives to run mainly on natural gas,. It’s testing the locomotives along the 480-kilometre stretch between Edmonton, a key energy processing and pipeline hub, and the oilsands epicentre of Fort McMurray, Alta.
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