Manufacturing Industry

Sweden allows Ikea to run ULSD diesel freight trains

Diesel Fuel News, Jan 21, 2002

Bankevert (Swedish National Rail Administration) announced it will allow Swedish furniture retailer Ikea to run relatively low-noise diesel freight locomotives (EMD JT42CWR, UK Class 66) for two years until a solution can be found to conflicting electric train systems between Sweden and Germany.

The locomotives must burn the ultra-clean Swedish Class 1 ULSD. Ikea is Europe's first company to take advantage of recent rail deregulation to operate trans-national freight trains. The T66 diesel locomotive (owned by TGOJ, Sweden) would replace 50 highway truckloads of daily Ikea freight. To boost energy efficiency, Euro legislators hope to shift more freight and passenger traffic from highways to rail and waterways over the next 20 years, but not at the expense of higher emissions or noise.

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