The North County Transit District announced Monday that it will purchase five new locomotives at a cost of more than $37 million to replace aging trains “at the end of their useful life.”
Funding will come from Senate Bill 1, commonly known as the gas tax, as well as grants from the Air Pollution Control District.
The new locomotives are estimated to require 16 percent less fuel and produce 90 percent fewer emissions than the engines they will replace, all built between 1975-1992.
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