Erie, Pennsylvania, USA and Cairo, Egypt (July 13, 2009) -- GE Transportation and the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) announced today that the 80th and final Evolution Series locomotive has been commissioned and was officially released to ENR at the end of June. The commissioning process prepares locomotives to be released for revenue service.
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Independent researchers conduct fuel test of GE and EMD model locomotives
Erie, Pa. (June 17, 2009) - GE Transportation announced today the results of a head-to-head fuel test between GE's Evolution® ES44AC and EMD's SD70ACe Tier 2 emissions-compliant locomotives. According to an independent research study GE's locomotives are over 6% more fuel-efficient compared to their EMD counterparts.
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Nashville, Tenn. (May 19, 2009) -- GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company, announced today that it has launched the Connection line of Positive Train Control (PTC) compliant products for rail networks operating in the United States.
With the signing of the Rail Safety Improvement Act by President George W. Bush in October 2008, the railroad industry will need to be PTC-compliant throughout the United States by 2015. According to the Act, there are four events that railroads must prevent with a PTC system:
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Memphis, Tenn. April 29, 2009 -- GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that it has delivered and equipped six LOCOTROLÒ remote control locomotive (RCL) systems for Canadian National Railways (CN) at its Johnson Yard in Memphis, Tenn.
LOCOTROL RCL enables improved efficiency of yard operations while providing an increased level of operator control. The system can decrease yard movements and improve interchange management for increased network velocity.
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Erie, Pennsylvania, USA (March 18, 2009) - GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that its customer Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) has taken delivery of the 3,000th Evolution Series® locomotive produced at GE Transportation's Erie, Pennsylvania manufacturing site. The Evolution is the most technologically advanced diesel electric, heavy-haul locomotive to-date. One Evolution Series locomotive can pull the equivalent of 170 Boeing 747 "Jumbo Jet" airliners.
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GE Transportation, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and Tülomsaş have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a strategic relationship in which GE Transportation and Tülomsaş have agreed to collaborate to supply the market with GE's PowerHaul™ locomotives.