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GE's Got A Ticket To Ride: How The Cloud Will Take Trains Into A New Era

Kristin Kloberdanz
March 29, 2016
From space, America’s rail system looks like a slice of brain tissue, with brightly lit train hubs and spokes standing in for neurons. Bit by bit, it's starting to behave like one.
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GE Signs $2.5 Billion Deal to Supply 1,000 Locomotives to India’s Vast Railway Network

November 09, 2015
A recent five-year transportation study found that more than half of the trains running on India’s vast rail network didn’t leave on time. What’s holding them back? A lack of locomotives.
Not surprisingly, late departures lead to frustration for millions of travellers as well as businesses, which rely on trains to ship their goods.

But a multibillion-dollar Letter of Award to GE by the Ministry of Railways could help unclog this bottleneck and significantly boost the Indian rail network’s on-time record.
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A Sense of Wonder: Photographer Vincent Laforet Tapped His Inner Child When Shooting Locomotives From High Above the Colorado Prairie

September 25, 2015
In March, GE invited the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet to a remote locomotive testing facility spreading over hundreds of acres of shrubby prairie near Pueblo, Colo. Laforet hired a helicopter and produced stunning images of GE’s blue Tier IV train engine while circling over the moving machine.
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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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Trains with Brains Will Haul Ore Through Earth’s Closest Thing to Mars

March 25, 2015
A few years ago, NASA sent a “Spaceward Bound” expedition to Australia’s remote Pilbara region. The region’s rugged and red-hued plains appeared to be a good analog for Mars. Up to a point.
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Seeking New Edisons: STEM Scholarship Will Boost Innovation in Ohio

March 09, 2015
America’s high school graduation rate is at its highest point in four decades – three out of four students now get a diploma. But in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) in Ohio, Thomas Edison’s home state, the numbers remain grim: just 60 percent of students graduate.
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The Long Haul: How the Ex-Im Bank Helps Keep a Heartland Town Open for Business

February 24, 2015
The light filters inside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Franklin, Pa., through a set of precious Tiffany windows framing its spacious nave. This life-size kaleidoscope of colors harkens back to a time over a century ago, when Franklin was at the epicenter of America’s first oil boom.
The good times didn’t last.
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Not Even 40 Inches of Snow Can Stop this GE Locomotive

February 18, 2015

A series of epic winter storms buried the New Brunswick town of Salisbury under 40 inches of snow in January, including the railroad. But all that snow wasn’t enough to stop a Canadian National Railway freight train pulled by a GE diesel-electric Evolution Series ES44DC locomotive, which sliced straight through it in a spectacular manner. 

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When Big Data Plays a Matchmaker Between the Environment and Economics

November 03, 2014

From space, Norfolk Southern’s 20,000-mile rail system resembles a neural network and it increasingly works like one, too. The railroad has rolled out a big data system called Movement Planner, which helps intelligently direct the hundreds of trains that ply its rails through 22 states from the Atlantic coast to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River every day.

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