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Leading The Charge: Battery-Electric Locomotives Will Be Pushing US Freight Trains Further

October 24, 2018
Trains have been a crucial part of America’s infrastructure ever since two locomotives drew nose-to-nose at Promontory Summit in Utah on May 10, 1869, marking the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Last year alone, trains pulled by diesel locomotives moved $174 billion worth of grain, coal and other freight across the U.S., second only to trucks and as much as four times more fuel-efficient than trucks.
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Transportation

Forever Young: This Texas Plant Gives Middle-Aged Locomotives Extreme Makeovers

Tomas Kellner
March 26, 2018
GE’s huge locomotive factory outside Fort Worth, Texas, feels like the rumpus room of a giant toddler fond of playing with trains. The place — all 1 million square feet of it — is filled with locomotives in various states of assembly. There are cabs in one corner, wheels and trucks in another, and engines in the middle.
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Locomotives

Next Stop, Kyiv: Ukrainian Railways' $1 Billion Deal With GE Is Set To Dispatch Its Trains Into the Future

Dorothy Pomerantz
February 23, 2018
Last year, Ukrainian farmers lost the opportunity to export potentially millions of tons of grain due to the overloaded national transportation system. This fall, new GE locomotives are planned to help ensure the grain harvest makes it to market on time.
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The Wingmen: GE Welders Band Together In New Career As Robot Programmers

Bruce Watson
September 29, 2017
Ice Man, Viper, Goose, Hollywood. Any fan of ‘80s movies will recognize the nicknames of the competitive pilots in the movie Top Gun. But those are also the names of four welding robots being programmed by a group of guys who are every bit as competitive, and every bit as supportive, as the pilots in Top Gun.
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Trains

Now Arriving: The World’s Oldest Trading Empire Is Getting New Trains

Bruce Watson
July 12, 2017
For most of recorded history, Egypt has been at the cutting edge of transportation technology. The country had a canal connecting the Nile and the Red Sea thousands of years before the Suez Canal was built. Egypt boasts the world’s oldest seaport, and in 1852, it also opened the first rail line in Africa and the Middle East linking Alexandria to the city of Kafr el-Zayyat.
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Minds-Machines

On The Right Track: Software Is Helping Make European Trains Smarter

P D Olson
June 14, 2017
Outside of the Island of Sodor, where Thomas the Tank Engine and his magical friends live, trains don’t usually speak. That’s about to change in Europe, where locomotives are set to start talking to their operators and maintenance crews through data collected from thousands of sensors.
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Big Data

New GE 'In The Wild’ Shows How The IoT Is Making Smart Trains Smarter

Samantha Shaddock
May 19, 2017
The Internet of Things is already helping people track their health with smart wristbands and reduce their home energy use with connected thermostats. Now, as viewers of GE's "In the Wild” web video series will discover, the IoT has scaled up — way up — to turn industry’s biggest machines into data-generating powerhouses.
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Africa

Back On The Rails: How Machinists In Pennsylvania Are Helping Drive Angola’s Economy

Maggie Sieger
May 04, 2017
A few years ago, a group of investors from Singapore planned to open a large iron mine in the Huila province in southwest Angola. The mine would bring jobs and money to the local economy, but the project failed because there was no reliable way to move the ore from the mine.
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Manufacturing

From The Keystone State To Karachi: These U.S Locomotives Will Help Drive Pakistan’s Economy

Maggie Sieger
March 30, 2017
Erie, Pennsylvania, is 7,000 miles and a world away from Karachi, Pakistan. Seated on the south side of Lake Erie, the Pennsylvania town is green and full of historic brick homes. Karachi is a bustling metropolis located on the edge of a desert. But there’s one thing Erie and Karachi have in common: trains pulled by GE locomotives.
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Part 1 Transformation: Change in the Energy Ecosystem

February 27, 2017
The global energy ecosystem is changing. That is an ecosystem where collectively the world spends over US$6 trillion annually. That amounts to roughly 6% of global GDP.
GE is a company with world-leading experience operating throughout this ecosystem, whether that’s upstream production or generation and delivery. This is a landscape we understand, and it’s a landscape which is experiencing huge transformation. Here are 9 key areas to look out for.
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