National Railway Equipment Company is an American railroad equipment rebuilding, leasing, and manufacturing company, headquartered in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. NREC sells new and rebuilt locomotives to railroad companies worldwide, with an emphasis on the North American market.
N-ViroMotive Series
NRE's flagship locomotive product is dubbed the N-ViroMotive and is targeted at providing light duty road switcher engines with increased efficiency and decreased air and noise pollution. These locomotives are specifically targeted for yards and other urban environments where noise & exhaust from idling locomotives can become a nuisance. They also fill a market segment for light duty locomotives now largely abandoned by the major builders, GE & Electro-Motive, which have not listed such locomotives in their catalog for nearly 20 years.
N-ViroMotives are newly built as opposed to rebuilt with donor parts. They use a low hood design with up to three diesel generator sets (gensets) that supply power to the traction motors. The current gensets use a Cummins diesel engine and can be easily swapped in and out for repair or overhaul work. The gensets are computer-controlled to switch on and off according to the demands of hauling the load. Trucks are of the EMD standard Blomberg B design.
As of 2009, NREC has sold upwards of 210 N-ViroMotives to many different railroads, including the U.S. Army, with the largest order of 60 being delivered to the Union Pacific which plans to use them in the smog conscious L.A. area.
Model Information Model designationBuild yearTotal producedNREC Genset RosterAAR wheel arrangementPrime moverPower outputImageNotesN-ViroMotive Series Genset Locomotives 1GS7B 2008–Present 7 B-B Cummins QSK19C 2GS14B 2005–Present 10 B-B Cummins QSK19C(×2) 3GS21B 2006–Present 181 B-B Cummins QSK19C(×3) 3GS21C 2008–Present 27 C-C Cummins QSK19C(×3) 2GS36C-DE 2011–Present 1 C-C Cummins QSK50L(×2) 2GS12B 2014–Present 4 B-B Cummins QSK15(×2) Narrow Gauge Locomotives E3000CC-DC 2019–2020 6 C-C (narrow gauge) EMD 16-645 4 were converted from new-build E-3000E3B prior to delivery
Export DestinationModel designationBuild yearTotal producedNREC Genset RosterAAR wheel arrangementPrime moverPower outputImageNotes E-2300GT22CW-2 SERIE E2300/2500 DE NREC DE FERROSUR ROCA S.A. (FR) 2008 2 Co-Co EMD 12-645E3B E-3000E3B 2012–Present 8 (12) Co-Co EMD 16-645E3C 12 ordered and built but only 8 delivered; remaining 4 modified to narrow-gauge E3000CC-DC for WP&Y AT36-CRL Class 2005-2010 9 Co-Co EMD 16-645F3B Project taken over from Morrison-Knudsen. Manufactured in Australia. 3GS24C-DE-AUGenset demonstrators delivered 2013–Present 2 C-C Cummins QSK19C (×3) Demonstrator units owned by NREC. 2GS16B-AU mid-2014 7 B-B Cummins QSK19C (×2) E-3000CAlcoa 990 000 2007 2 Co-Co EMD 16-645E3C E3000C-UN 2009 2 Co-Co EMD 16-645E3C NRE GT26 2015 6 Co-Co
See also List of low emissions locomotives
References
External links
Official National Railway Equipment Company website