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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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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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Let the Train Blow the Vuvuzela: South Africa’s Transnet Buys Advanced GE Locomotives

March 17, 2014

South Africa’s Transnet Freight Rail moves every pound of coal and iron ore exported by the country, and close to a fifth of the nation’s freight. That makes the railroad a key player in South Africa’s economic revival. It plans to spend Rand 200 billion ($18.6 billion) on expanding capacity and increasing cargo volume.

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