In each issue of Diesel Power, the Baselines department will take a look back at the history of diesel-powered vehicles. This peek into the past of diesels will cover powerplants, historic diesel ...

C.L. Best, Caterpillar Inc.'s first and longest-serving chairman, passed on getting into the automotive business back in 1898 when cars were still known as horseless carriages. The California-based ...

The 657 Caterpillar scraper is a combination tractor-scraper utilizing a 585-horsepower Cat C18 diesel in the tractor and a 447-horsepower C15 in the scraper. The transmission features Electronic ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Caterpillar Diesel Thirty-Five crawler tractor is welcomed on arrival by excited affiliates of the ...

Caterpillar is moving faster in expanding its line of Navistar-built Cat Trucks following the 2011 introduction of its original CT660 with a setback steer axle. Last fall brought the CT681, with a ...

Caterpillar this week unveiled its CT680 on/off-road truck and tractor, the third model in a line of Cat Trucks first introduced about four years ago for vocational customers. The CT680 has a long ...

Caterpillar Inc. unveiled the first-of-its-kind electric drive track-type tractor in ceremonies Tuesday in Building SS. Caterpillar Group President Doug Oberhelman, who takes over as Caterpillar CEO ...

The highest torque diesel engines ever made have turned up in everything from small commercial vehicles to powerful locomotives to mining equipment and more.