Experts: City can save $60M on streetcars
A proposed streetcar line would be far less expensive to build if constructed without overhead power lines, several engineers suggested Thursday. Alternative power sources for rail lines...12 June 2009 | Charlotte Observer
Busmaker Proterra eyes Charlotte region for plant
Colorado-based Proterra, a clean-fuel busmaker, is scouting the Charlotte region for a manufacturing site that could house 500 workers...01 June 2009 | Charlotte Business Journal
Hydrail conference could spark new jobs here
The Fifth International Hydrail Conference in Charlotte next month will focus on an issue that could draw 200 or more manufacturing jobs to Mooresville, building wireless urban streetcars with no need for overhead power...29 May 2009 | Mooresville Tribune
Hydrail Technology Featured at June Conference
Hydrail technology - which uses hydrogen fuel cells instead of traditional diesel-electric generators to power rail equipment traction motors - will be the topic...[PDF]25 May 2009 | Passenger Transport
Thinking Big about Thunder Bay
If there is one thing that Thunder Bay offers in massive quantities, it is potential. Our city...20 May 2009 | NetNewsLedger
Hydrolleys and Hydrail Eliminate Costly Electric Power Feeds
There's been a lot of talk about California's high-speed electric train (bullet train) speeding to and from all major cities in the Golden State with a hefty price tag of $37 billion. But, there is another new technology that has mostly slipped under the radar and that is: hydrogen trains.13 April 2009 | HydrogenCarsNow
Experimental hydrogen-powered BNSF locomotive
Taking shape in the BNSF Railway workshop at Topeka, Kansas, is an experimental shunting locomotive powered by hydrogen fuel cells. BNSF believes...06 March 2009 | Topeka, Kansas
WBTV News hydrail feature
hydrail: Hydrogen trains picking up steam?15 September 2008 | WBTV
Hydrail in Nature
Recent article - Do the locomotion - highlights hydrail in series on Future Transport.27 August 2008 | Nature 454, 1036-1037 (2008)
Hydrail: Melbourne to Geelong?
Fuel cell power considered for Melbourne to Geelong rail link18 August 2008 | Fuel Cell Today
New Motor for Fuel Cell Train
UQM Technologies Delivers Motor for Use in Fuel Cell Powered Switch Locomotive27 March 2008 | Colorado | Press Release
RTRI Report Vol.22 No.2
RTRI offers two articles in this report on fuel cells and hydrogen in railways.February 2008 | Tokyo | Report
Hydrail Fast Track Down Under
National Hydrogen Association of Australia article on fuel cell trains29 February 2008 | NHAA Web site
BNSF Railway Fuel Cell Train
BNSF building hydrogen-powered fuel cell locomotive10 January 2008 | Topeka, Kansas (USA)
BNSF Railway and Vehicle Projects Develop Experimental Hydrogen Fuel Cell Switch Locomotive09 January 2008 | BNSF News Release
-->Fifth International Hydrail Conference
11-12 June 2009 | Charlotte, NC, USA
Conference Downloads
A conference featuring the latest developments in renewable energy-powered, carbon-neutral mass transit. Hydrogen-powered transit technology (Hydrail) is an energy-independent and low-cost public transportation option that protects local air quality and facilitates the ease of transition to tomorrow's hydrogen-based economy.
Fourth International Hydrail Conference 9 June 2008 | Valencia, Spain
Presentations now available for download, see the conference web page.
Global Map of Hydrogen Rail Projects
Third International Hydrail Conference, Post-Conference
The Third International Hydrail Conference was held 13-14 August, 2007, at Catawba College's Center for the Environment in Salisbury, NC, USA. The conference highlighted activities in Asia, Europe, and North America, and featured U.S. Fuel Cell Council Executive Director Robert Rose as the Luncheon Keynote Speaker and N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary William G. Ross Jr. delivering the Dinner Keynote Address.
The conferees extend their gratitude to both co-host institutions Catawba College Center for the Environment and Appalachian State Energy Center, as well as the sponsors who made the Third International Hydrail Conference possible: The United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Centralina Council of Governments, Duke Energy Corporation, Alexander Zachary Jewelers in Mooresville NC, Food Lion Corporation in Salisbury NC, and the Mooresville - South Iredell Economic Development Corporation.
