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Not Even 40 Inches of Snow Can Stop this GE Locomotive
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...
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The Long Haul: How the Ex-Im Bank Helps Keep a Heartland Town Open for Business
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...
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Seeking New Edisons: STEM Scholarship Will Boost Innovation in Ohio
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...
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Trains with Brains Will Haul Ore Through Earth’s Closest Thing to Mars
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. The...
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Dig This: The Panama Canal is About to Get Busy
The Panama Canal is a full century old, but it’s going through a growth spurt. The 48-mile-long waterway that cuts across “the backbone of the Western Hemisphere” is going through the final year of a...
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GE is Talkin’ Loco! Testing a New Engine in the Tunnels of Dread
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...
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This Software-Guided Supersonic Air Blower Sweeps the Rails Clean
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...
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A Sense of Wonder: Photographer Vincent Laforet Tapped His Inner Child When...
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...
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Building a Jet-Propelled Train Was Not Rocket Science for Don Wetzel
On a clear day in July 1966, New York Central Railroad engineer Don Wetzel and his team boarded a specially modified Buddliner railcar, No. M-497. Bolted to the roof above them were two GE J47-19 jet...
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GE Signs $2.6 Billion Deal to Supply 1,000 Locomotives to India’s Vast...
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...
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GE’s Got A Ticket To Ride: How The Cloud Will Take Trains Into A New Era
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. Take GE’s newest...
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Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says...
For futurist and X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis, times have been always been a-changin’. But never as much as right now. “We are in a period when extraordinary things are starting to...
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Dig This: The Panama Canal Expansion Used Enough Steel To Build 22 Eiffel Towers
The Cosco Shipping Panama freighter made history Sunday by being the first working ship to slip through the Panama Canal’s huge new locks. The expansion project swallowed enough steel to build 22...
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Q2 Results: GE Gets A Lift From Strong Performance By Aviation, Power Units
GE released second quarter results today. Industrial operating plus GE Capital verticals earnings reached $0.51 per share, up 65 percent compared to the second quarter of last year. GE Chairman and CEO...
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Brains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend. At this...
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The Heaviest Haul: A New Locomotive Factory Will Put This Indian State On The...
The Indian town of Marhaura isn’t on many tourist destination lists. Located on the western edge of Bihar, one of the country’s most densely populated and least developed states, the town has an...
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From The Keystone State To Karachi: These U.S Locomotives Will Help Drive...
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...
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On The Right Track: Software Is Helping Make European Trains Smarter
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...
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Back On The Rails: How Machinists In Pennsylvania Are Helping Drive Angola’s...
A few years ago, a group of investors from Singapore planned to open a large iron mine in southwest Angola’s Huila province. The mine would bring jobs and money to the local economy, but the project...
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Brains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend. At this...
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