“Our climate goals will not be realized without understanding what we do with our high-horsepower fleet,” Meyer says. of Innisfail, Alberta, some 60 miles north of Calgary. 9517, is currently being converted to hydrogen power at the shop of CPKC’s partner, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. 1002, will complete testing in revenue service in the third quarter and will be handed over to the operating department for daily local and yard service starting in the fourth quarter.Ī high-horsepower, AC-traction locomotive, AC4400CW No. The 1001 and its four-axle counterpart, GP38-2H No. “This project is the chance to change the industry entirely.” We’re creating an ecosystem of change,” says Mulligan, who is a certified locomotive engineer and conductor.
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All of the software is done in house, all of the electrical design and drawings are done in house. H2 0EL stands for “hydrogen zero-emissions locomotive.” It took Mulligan and his nine-person team just 11 months to go from concept to a test run of H2 0EL No. “I can’t think of anything that would be more important than being able to create a locomotive that only outputs water as the exhaust,” Mulligan said in a video played at investor day. He pitched the idea to CP CEO Keith Creel in 2020, and Creel gave the go-ahead to convert a single SD40-2F into the railway’s first hydrogen fuel cell freight locomotive. The locomotives were the brainchild of Kyle Mulligan, CPKC’s chief engineer of railway technology. “We know as an industry, we know at CPKC: The railroads must lead the transportation sector into a low carbon economy,” Justin Meyer, the railway’s senior vice president of engineering and mechanical, said during the CPKC investor day on Wednesday at Kansas City Union Station.ĬPKC’s hydrogen-powered locomotives use fuel cells to produce electricity that’s stored in batteries and sent to each unit’s conventional traction motors. And they say it’s necessary in order to achieve the railway’s emission-reduction goals. Now, 84 years later, could Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s trio of prototype hydrogen fuel cell locomotives do to the diesel-electric what the 103 did to steam?ĬPKC officials believe it’s possible. And within 20 years steam was vanquished, making the 103 what Trains Editor David P. In test runs with freight and passenger trains, the experimental diesel-electric proved itself superior to even the most modern steam locomotives. 103 embarked on an 11-month, 83,764-mile demonstration tour on some of the toughest territory that American railroads could throw at the 5,400 horsepower, four-unit locomotive set. KANSAS CITY - You know the story: In November 1939 Electro-Motive FT No. 103, the demonstrator for EMD’s groundbreaking locomotive, was on display at 2014’s Streamliners at Spencer. A capture from a Canadian Pacific video shows the railroad’s first hydrogen fuel-cell locomotive.
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