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The Fore River Railroad, a 2.5-mile short line in Quincy, Mass., has defied the odds by surviving and thriving for 122 years.
David Popp interviews Rapido Trains owner Jason Shron on the imminent United States tariffs and their effect on the model ...
High-value electrical rotating equipment manufacturer Reid & Mitchell’s (R&M’s) traction his­tory goes back many years. The busi­ness was formerly owned by multinational conglomerate General Electric ...
Thank you for calling Mercer Township. How may I help you?” is the phone greeting that often leads to me donning my detective ...
Each new or bigger merger-created railroad in the ... In addition to SPUD's 44-ton GE [see "Bumping Post," Fall 2002 Classic Trains] and Minnesota Transfer's switchers, we tracked down Baldwins ...
The first 40 locomotives are being built at GE’s plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, while the remaining 960 units will be assembled at a new joint venture production facility at Marhowra in the Indian state ...
Enhancements include full replacement of wooden sleepers with steel sleepers, upgraded rail control system, nine new GE locomotives and 500 additional wagons and ew sidings, level crossings, and ...
This month, CN is taking delivery of the first of 60 new GE locomotives due in service in 2018. The balance of a multi-year, 200-unit order will be brought online in 2019 and 2020. After adding ...
The order includes 36 Wabtec EVOBBW locomotives for EFVM and 14 Wabtec ES58ACi locomotives for EFC. Credit: Wabtec Corporation. Mining company Vale has finalised a purchase agreement with Wabtec to ...
SNR has announced the completion of testing for a four-axle hydrogen-fuelled, zero-emission switching locomotive.
The long-delayed Boeing 777X can only fly on GE Aerospace’s GE9x, the company’s latest-generation wide-body engine. Hence, GE ...