A locomotive burns fuel by the ton. Drift hides in every one of them.
Validated on line-haul locomotive platforms and OEM-agnostic: EBM™ reads each locomotive engine against its certified baseline and turns excess burn into a specific, verifiable repair.
Emissions-based maintenance™ for rail reads exhaust chemistry on diesel locomotives, compares each engine to its certified baseline, and quantifies excess fuel burn and CO2 as specific, repairable findings, without taking the unit out of service to test it.
Proven on a working railroad.
All case studies
Sixteen locomotives were tested against the engine's own certified combustion target of 7.39% CO2. Fifteen of the sixteen came in below it, averaging 6.55%. Less carbon out means less fuel burned, and less fuel burned means less work done: the same fleet showed an average horsepower loss of 494 against a 3,600 HP specification. Two independent measurements, one finding, and no fault code anywhere in the fleet.
Deviation runs in both directions. An engine burning more fuel than its target is wasting money; an engine burning less is not making the power it was built to make. Both are findings. Only one of them is visible on a fuel invoice.
Rail operators ask us this.
Yes. The method is validated across five major diesel engine makes, and the published case studies include a passenger rail fleet of 17 engines in the western United States.
No. Readings are taken while the engine works. The method compares each engine to its certified baseline and flags the units worth a shop visit, so the shop time goes where the findings are.
Excess CO2 is the same gap as excess fuel, stated in emissions terms. Findings are engine-specific and verifiable on the next test, which makes them usable evidence for sustainability reporting.
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