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[When I drive my car to work, I use about a gallon of gas.]
[If I put my car on a locomotive, and now we're going to ship it,]
[[Adam Klinbeil - Mechanical Engineer] the amount of fuel required to ship my car]
[would be one gallon every 484 miles. [Based on AAR statistics]]
[[Roy J. Primus - Principal Engineer] It is the most efficient means of transporting goods]
[[Single Cylinder Research Facility Room 528] This is referred to as the evolution engine.]
[We're continuing to evolve for meeting the next generation of emissions regulations.]
[In this lab we have a single power assembly--]
[one cylinder out of the twelve-cylinder locomotive engine]
[that actually goes into the locomotives.]
[We can isolate the individual power assembly]
[and focus on what's going on inside that power assembly.]
[[Thomas Lavertu - Mechanical Engineer] Which means that we can test new concepts]
[quickly and efficiently without going into a whole 12-cylinder engine.]
[That locomotive engine is coupled with two or three locomotives that go into a train,]
[and that's what moves your goods.]
[A freight locomotive will consume over 300,000 gallons of fuel in a year.]
[So if we can make that just efficient by 1%,]
[we're saving thousands of gallons of fuel.]
[And then you multiply that over the fleet, and it starts adding up very quickly.]
[GE Transportation relies on our lab to]
[that are going to help them deliver the next great product.]
[So that's pretty neat--to know that product coming off the assembly line]
