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In July, the EPA announced another historic $500-million federal grant to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which plans to encourage the adoption of zero-emission cargo trucks, delivery vehicles and some locomotives.

Historian Frank Beattie, who has lived in Kilmarnock since 1952, suggests the tradition goes back many decades and is linked to the history of the town as a centre for locomotive manufacturing and textiles.

In May, a Tesla in FSD mode nearly hit a moving train after failing to detect the locomotive.

It eventually was tested at the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colo., and then departed Colorado for San Bernardino on June 18, aided by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe locomotive.

Train emissions — about 70% of all rail yard pollution — have remained largely unchanged over the past decade, partly because the rail industry has not purchased new locomotives with cleaner engines, according to the air district.