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This Software-Guided Supersonic Air Blower Sweeps the Rails Clean

April 27, 2015
Like an SUV towing a trailer in winter, locomotives can lose their grip on slick rails if they’re pulling too much behind them. Since the weather in mountainous areas can change quickly, railroads play it safe and usually only run trains long enough to pull though all weather conditions.
But shorter trains can get expensive. A single rail car can fit enough grain to bake 258,000 loaves of bread, according to the Association of American Railroads. That’s why GE locomotive engineers developed a software-guided supersonic air blower.
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GE is Talkin’ Loco! Testing a New Engine in the Tunnels of Dread

April 14, 2015
If Dante were a railroad engineer, the Norden tunnel under Sierra Nevada’s Donner Pass would probably be his tenth circle of hell. Nicknamed the “Big Hole” and 90 years old, its unventilated shaft steadily climbs a heavy, 1.8 percent grade over a distance of 2 miles.
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Rail’s on a Roll With Big Data

Peter Thomas GE
March 13, 2014
Some may think trains are just steel wheels on steel rails, but freight rail is a rapidly evolving sector that is increasingly fitted with and connected to innovative 21st-century technology that keeps our economy moving.
As the industry takes its message to lawmakers today during “Railroad Day” on Capitol Hill, the industry is on a roll. Revenue is up 19 percent since 2009 to $80.6 billion, creating 10,000 new directly related jobs and countless other ancillary jobs. Some $21 billion in wages were paid last year alone, a $1 billion increase from the year before.
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Happy Rails To You: Amtrak’s Chief Mechanical Officer Mario Bergeron Talks about Thanksgiving Travel and a Workhorse GE Locomotive

November 27, 2013

If you are reading this on a railroad platform while waiting to board a train home for Thanksgiving, pay good attention to your train’s locomotive. In the early 1990s, engineers at GE Transportation designed the P42 Genesis diesel-electric locomotive for Amtrak, and the streamlined, low-profile engine remains a workhorse of the system. It can travel as fast as 110mph and pull 16 Amtrak Superliner coaches. GE manufactured more than 300 of them for Amtrak, Metro North and Via Rail.

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