Fortescue commissions battery heavy haul locomotives

Fortescue has begun commissioning two Progress Rail EMD SD70J-BB battery locomotives

AUSTRALIA: Iron ore miner Fortescue has begun commissioning two Progress Rail battery locomotives which it says house the world’s largest land-mobile batteries each with a capacity of 14·5 MWh. 

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