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Taking an age-old mode of transportation and giving it a boost of 21^st Century technology, that’s what GE’s RailEdge Movement Planner does for freight rail travel. It’s essentially a breakthrough software system that serves as an air traffic control system for freight rail. It helps railroads take into account train schedules, traffic control systems and train movements relative to each other and comes up with an optimized traffic plan for the trains, even down to the best speed at which to travel to keep the flow going throughout the railroad. Norfolk Southern and GE Transportation today announced the success of the new technology, which as described in the video below, has already been rolled out along a 200-mile stretch in Georgia. The efficiency gains from RailEdge can increase the average speed of trains by 10 to 20 percent, which translates into as much as four miles per hour. In the world of freight rail, that’s a whopping amount when you consider that every mile per hour faster a freight train travels, a railroad can save up to $200 million a year in capital and expenses.

GE Transportation just marked a key milestone – the delivery of the 3,000th Evolution Series locomotive to our railway customer in Kazakhstan. Introduced in 2005, the Evolution Series locomotive represents a $400 million investment by GE over eight years. The transportation team reinvented what a locomotive could be and created its most technologically advanced, fuel-efficient and low emissions locomotive to-date. The Evolution series, which is part of GE’s ecomagination product portfolio, is one of GE’s crown accomplishments being recently hailed as one of the top ten locomotives that changed railroading by Trains Magazine.

Guest contributor, Peter Lawson, is a locomotive product engineer at GE Transportation.
It’s been fascinating to witness history in the making and to be tied to it ever so slightly. I’ve been following President-elect Barack Obama’s whistle-stop tour from Philadelphia, through Wilmington, then Baltimore and finally to our nation’s capital for his inauguration.

Hello GE Reports. I’m Roger Lambson, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment leader at GE Transportation in South Africa, and I would like to tell you about some recent news from the region and how we continue to take steps forward to embrace South Africa.

GE Transportation and its Chinese partner Qishuyan Locomotive have introduced the first of 298 China Mainline Locomotives assembled in-country. GE manufactures and ships the powerful locomotives in kits from its U.S. plants to Qishuyan located in Changzhou, China, for assembly.