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GE Transportation Announces Third-Quarter Earnings

Earlier today GE Transportation reported $1.3 billion in third-quarter revenues, up 48% year-over-year.  Segment profits for the same period were $196 million, up 94% compared to third-quarter profits...

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Railroad Sustainability Symposium a Great Success

Encouraging new, inventive ideas on sustainability in the rail industry was the main focus of the recent Railroad Sustainability Symposium held at GE’s Crotonville learning center.  In early...

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GE Acquires Rail Software Provider RMI

GE Transportation announced today its intent to acquire transportation software provider RMI from global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group.  Pending regulatory approval anticipated early...

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UGL and GE Transportation Celebrate the Australian Launch of the PowerHaul...

What’s the word from “down under”? PowerHaul. GE Transportation and our regional partner, UGL, introduced the PowerHaul Series locomotive for Australia this week at AusRail Plus 2011, the largest...

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GE Transportation Expands Manufacturing in Grove City

Earlier today, GE Transportation announced the construction of a new $35 million diesel remanufacturing plant in Grove City, Pennsylvania. In addition, GE Transportation will also invest $37 million...

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RMI now a GE Transportation company

GE Transportation today announced the completion of its acquisition of software provider RMI from The Carlyle Group.  The acquisition significantly expands GE Transportation’s Software and...

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GE Transportation Receives Order for 43 Locomotives from Transnet in South...

GE Transportation today announced the signing of a contract with Transnet SOC Limited for 43 GE Model C30ACi locomotives bringing the total number of GE locomotives ordered to 143 since December 2009....

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GE Works Transportation ad makes its debut

6-lRzH-qxoc“I absolutely love building locomotives.”At GE Transportation we love building them… and just seeing them in hauling freight across the land!  Scott Slawson, a welder who works on...

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GE Transportation reports strong first quarter earnings

GE’s transportation business generated strong results in the first quarter 2012 based on infrastructure growth opportunities in the markets in which it operates. GE Transportation reported $1.3...

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GE Introduces New Railway Signaling Solution Tempo™ ETCS

GE Transportation announced a new European Train Control System (ETCS) and Computer Based Interlocking system offering at the UIC ERTMS World Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. These systems are part of...

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RMI Named Top 100 Logistics Technology Provider for 2012

RMI, a GE Transportation company and leading provider of transportation management software and analytics to the railroad industry, has been selected as a 2012 Top 100 Logistics Technology Company by...

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New Diesel Engine Plant to Serve CIS Region

GE Transportation, TransMashDiesel and JSC National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a diesel engine manufacturing plant in Astana,...

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GE Transportation Chooses Chicago for Global Headquarters

GE Transportation announced today that it has chosen Chicago as its global headquarters. Erie, Pennsylvania will remain the headquarters for GE Transportation’s global locomotive business and key...

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GE Transportation Reports Strong Second Quarter Earnings

GE’s Transportation business generated strong results through the second quarter 2012 driven by continued infrastructure growth in the markets in which the company operates.  GE Transportation’s...

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GE Unveils the First Tier 4 Heavy-Haul Locomotive

GE Transportation unveiled the prototype for its next Evolution® Series Locomotive that will decrease key emissions by more than 70 percent and save railroad customers more than $1.5 billion in...

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GE Transportation Showcases Technology Leadership at InnoTrans 2012

GE Transportation's innovative rail products and services are being showcased at InnoTrans 2012 from September 18 to 21. Hosted every two years, InnoTrans is the world’s largest rail exhibition and...

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GE PowerHaul Series Expands Globally

GE PowerHaul Series Locomotive is delivering best-in-class haulage and fuel efficiency as well as compliance with the latest regional emissions standards. Since its debut in the United Kingdom in 2009,...

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Introducing RMI: GE Features Optimization Solutions Business

GE has provided freight and passenger locomotives, signaling and communications systems and rail services to help solve the world’s toughest rail challenges. In 2012, it expanded its rail...

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Top 5 Things you Missed at InnoTrans Day 1

The GE Transportation team is having a great time at InnoTrans 2012! We enjoyed meeting many of you in our stand today, but if you couldn’t make it, here are a few moments you might have missed! 1....

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GE Unveils European PowerHaul Locomotive at InnoTrans 2012

GE unveiled its PowerHaul Series PH37ACai Locomotive at InnoTrans 2012 in Berlin. Hosted every two years, InnoTrans is the world’s largest rail exhibition and attracts more than 100,000 attendees and...

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GE and TÜLOMSAŞ Showcase First PowerHaul Locomotive Manufactured in Turkey

GE introduced with its partner, TÜLOMSAŞ at Innotrans 2012 in Berlin, the first GE PowerHaul Locomotive to be manufactured in Turkey. GE’s strategic relationship with TÜLOMSAŞ, a regional leader...

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GE and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) Announce 110-Locomotive Order

GE and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) announced today they have signed a new landmark agreement to extend their partnership in Kazakhstan to produce passenger locomotives at the assembly plant in Astana,...

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GE Transportation Showcases New Tempo™ Signaling Portfolio at InnoTrans 2012

GE Transportation is showcasing Tempo Railway Solutions, its new rail signaling solutions portfolio for mass transit and mainline operations, at InnoTrans2012.  For more than a century, GE has been...

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MTR & GE Transportation Collaborate on Tempo Trial

GE Transportation is studying a fit for its Tempo CBTC Solution and Interlocking Solution in Hong Kong’s MTR metro infrastructure.  MTR Corporation and GE Transportation recently signed an agreement...

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Top 5 Things you Missed at InnoTrans Day 2

It’s been a big day for networking for the GE Transportation team and our partners at InnoTrans 2012!  If you haven’t had the chance to visit our stand or our PowerHaul locomotive, here are some...

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Top 5 Things you Missed at InnoTrans Day 3

It’s been another fun day for the GE Transportation team and our partners at InnoTrans 2012! If you haven’t had the chance to visit our stand or our PowerHaul locomotive, here are some things you...

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GE Transportation Reports Strong Third Quarter Earnings

GE Transportation’s strong results through the third quarter in 2012 were driven by continued infrastructure growth in the markets in which the company operates. GE Transportation reported $1.4...

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GE, KTZ and Transmashdiesel create a joint venture to produce diesel engines...

GE has signed an agreement with Transmashdiesel and JSC National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy's (KTZ) subsidiary JSC Remlokomotiv to create a joint venture company to produce diesel engines in...

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GE Transportation’s Optimization Solutions Announces 24th Annual Client...

GE Transportation’s Optimization Solutions, a leading provider of transportation management software and analytics to the railroad industry, announced today its highly anticipated 2013 User Group and...

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Brilliant Locomotives

Have you ever heard of a brilliant train? GE’s newest freight and passenger Evolution Series locomotives are our smartest and cleanest diesel-electrics on rails. Advanced engineering puts it in a...

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GE Transportation Reports Continued Strong Quarterly Earnings, Record-Level...

GE Transportationreported segment profits for fourth quarter 2012 of $252 million, up from $226 million in fourth quarter 2011.  Full year 2012 profits were $1.0 billion, up from $757 million in...

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GE Transportation Signs MOU

GE Transportation, Locorail and Yakutia Railways in Russia announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the possibility of forming a strategic relationship to...

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GE Transportation's New Euroloco Highlighted in Belgian Media

Belgian publications such as L'Echo and Le Vif L'Express recently ran articles highlighting GE Transportation's entrance the European locomotive market with a new product, the Euroloco! The Euroloco's...

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Tempo™ Signaling Solutions to make a special appearance at EurasiaRail

GE Transportation will be present at the third edition of EurasiaRail and is ready to create a buzz with its Tempo line of advanced signaling solutions for mass transit and railway markets....

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GE Transportation Donates $25,000 to the Chicago Public Schools’ STEM Program

Today, GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company, donated $25,000 to the Chicago Public Schools’ Early College Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Schools (ECSS)....

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GE Transportation launches CBTC technology and Intelligent Control systems at...

GE Transportation will be presenting its latest CBTC and train control technologies at the Asia Pacific Rail conference, taking place in Hong Kong this week, from 12th-14th March. The conference brings...

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GE Transportation Supports 2013 Railroad Day on Capitol Hill

Today, Lorenzo Simonelli, President and CEO of GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company, released a statement in support of the 2013 Railroad Day on Capitol Hill: “Railroads are the...

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GE Transportation Attends the 4th Signaling and Train Control 2013 Conference

GE Transportation showcases its Tempo ETCS and Computer Based Interlocking solutions at the 4th Signaling and Train Control 2013 conference from March 19th to 21st in Vienna, Austria. The global rail...

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GE Transportation promotes Tempo signaling solutions at Asia Pacific Rail...

Asia Pacific Rail is a platform where regional Rail Operators, industry experts and suppliers gather to give updates on the major projects in the region and discuss market trends and strategies. This...

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On the right track with the Industrial Internet

The Internet as we know it today is a pervasive computer network that serves 39 percent of the world’s population, or more than 2.7 billion people. But another Internet, still-emerging, promises to...

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2013 News Releases

May 7, 2013GE Transportation signs an agreement with Aurizon April 23, 2013GE Energy Storage Signs Deal with Safaricom April 4, 2013GE Energy Storage Announces First European Sale of DMS-Integrated...

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GE Transportation’s Trip Optimizer achieves 100 million miles of revenue...

GE Transportation just announced that its Trip Optimizer Energy Management system has recently achieved 100,000,000 miles in revenue service, which has resulted in approximately 25 million gallons of...

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GE Transportation Attends LTA-UITP Singapore International Transport Congress...

With an increasing number of signaling project opportunities, the Asia-Pacific region is definitely a place to promote GE Transportation’s ITS solutions in the domain. The company will  therefore...

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GE Transportation Returns to CBTC World Congress 2013

The world’s most important event for Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) technology will be held this year in London. The 4th annual CBTC World Congress gathers over 400 metro and CBTC network...

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GE Transportation Returns to CBTC World Congress 2013

The world’s most important event for Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) technology will be held this year in London. The 4th annual CBTC World Congress gathers over 400 metro and CBTC network...

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GE Transportation Touts Engines, Fuel Technology and Web Applications at...

The following breakthrough technologies are featured at Railway Interchange booths 4053 & 5043: Evolution® Series Advance Power 4 Engine NextFuelTM Natural Gas Retrofit Kit with Dual Fuel...

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Meet our new CEO, Russell Stokes

As of today, October 1, Russell Stokes is the new President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Transportation. Presiding over the leader in rail, mining and marine with annual revenues of $5.6 billion,...

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GE Transportation Unveils Latest Technology Development at Annual Minds +...

Introducing RailConnect 360 Monitoring and Diagnostics (M&D) and ShipperConnect software Solutions for railroads that lower customer maintenance and inventory costs, increase revenue Solutions for...

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CSX and GE Transportation Partner to Pilot Liquefied Natural Gas Locomotives

Exploring potential to revolutionize locomotive technology Goal is to reduce emissions and fuel costs JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – November 13, 2013 – CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) and GE Transportation, a...

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GE Transportation Announces New Software Products for Intermodal Terminal...

The following breakthrough technologies are featured in booth 1032 at the Intermodal Expo: OASIS Driver Mobile App brings smartphone technology to drayage truck drivers to reduce gate processing time...

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