Rail

Growing global demand for GE’s high-tech products has led to manufacturing expansion and new jobs in the U.S. in 2011. Today, GE Transportation announced it will spend $231 million to build a new manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, for making electric drive systems for heavy-duty mining trucks and to [...]

In recent months, GE has seen strong global demand for its advanced technology and has continued to expand and create new jobs in the U.S.—the company has announced 8,000 new jobs in the last 18 months and will hire 15,000 employees in the U.S. in 2011. Part of that growth [...]

GE Transportation and its high-tech offerings are on a hot streak. Citing burgeoning U.S. and global demand for its products, GE Transportation announced plans today to open a new manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, that will employ more than 500 workers by 2012 with the potential of up to [...]

China is a key market for GE as it works to increase its non-U.S. sales from 54 percent in 2009 to a target of 60 percent. The agreements in aviation, energy and rail being finalized this week during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington are part of that focus [...]

With their sleek profiles and blazing speeds, the bullet trains that may soon be whisking passengers in the U.S. certainly have been turning heads. But when it comes to the latest in high-tech railways, technologies to make freight rail faster, more efficient, and less costly are already in play.
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If you’ve had the chance to ride Amtrak’s Acela on its run between New York City and D.C., you may have been impressed as you overtook cars on the freeway. But you might be surprised to learn that with maximum speeds of just 150 mph, the Acela lags far [...]

As part of a series of rail deals announced late last year, GE and China’s Ministry of Railways said they would explore opportunities to develop high-speed passenger rail technologies. Now that partnership is making tracks as GE and China’s CSR Corporation are launching a new joint venture with one of [...]