Coal cars are rumbling down the tracks of the North Shore Scenic Railroad for the first time in years. Until this week, the line hadn't seen freight-car traffic since the late 1980s, when it was ...

New technological advances may make it possible in the near future to engineer a coal-powered car so clean that it produces nearly no polluting emissions, including carbon dioxide, experts tell ...

Historic photos of the S.S. Badger coal-powered car ferry show the 410-foot ship through the years. The ship is celebrating 72 years of service on Lake Michigan in 2025.

Historic photos of the S.S. Badger coal-powered car ferry show the 410-foot ship through the years. The ship is celebrating 70 years of service on Lake Michigan in 2023.

Remember when GM made a coal-powered turbine engine car? We didn't either Given all of the concerns we have today over vehicle emissions, it's almost impossible to imagine that just a few decades ...

A report released by the US EIA in May of 2014 forecasts an upward trend towards the use of coal for the next several years, with natural gas consumption outpacing coal by 2040. In other words, in ...

Twenty-five coal cars were derailed after a train went off its tracks in Greeley, Colorado, a municipality 50 miles north of Denver. The train derailed at 11 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Weld ...

Compared to a gasoline-powered car, even a coal-powered Tesla is cleaner. "An average internal combustion engine (25.4 miles per gallon) is responsible for 68.38 metric tons of carbon dioxide over ...

The coal-rolling turbine engine never saw any time in a production car. Either someone figured out that it wasn’t easy to scale up a consumer coal refueling network or decided it is just a ...