The story of century-old GE Transportation has included some dramatic plot twists in recent years. In the past five years alone, the company built its first North American locomotive plant outside of ...

GE Transportation has been battered by a drop of about 10% in the last couple years in North American freight railcar loads. Thousands of locomotives are sitting unused amid dwindling coal production ...

Most railfans will not dispute this statement: The most iconic General Electric locomotives to be employed by Amtrak were the Genesis series. These streamlined, monocoque-body (single shell) ...

As rain pelted the windows at General Electric Co. offices in Chicago, executives debated whether to build a low-emission locomotive. The deliberations went on for two days, and to keep the mood ...