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Trains

Smooth Power: GE Helps Recharge Eurotunnel So More Trains Can Travel Vital Link Between UK and the Continent

Gregor Macdonald
February 09, 2023

Despite Britain’s exit from the European Union two years ago, a unique piece of infrastructure forever links the country to the Continent: the Channel Tunnel. This hard connection beneath the English Channel has safely guided passenger and freight rail for nearly 30 years since its unveiling in 1994. Tourism and economic activity have expanded greatly over that time, and 25% of UK-EU trade is now dependent on “the Chunnel.”

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Trains

Silver Bullet: As Train Traffic Soars, This Technology Offers A Light At The End Of The Channel Tunnel

Tomas Kellner
March 23, 2018

The Brits and the French have spent centuries locked in a complex relationship stretching from the Norman Conquest to Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” — yet the two countries still can’t get enough of one another.

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Locomotives

Next Stop, Kyiv: Ukrainian Railways' $1 Billion Deal With GE Is Set To Dispatch Its Trains Into the Future

Dorothy Pomerantz
February 23, 2018
Last year, Ukrainian farmers lost the opportunity to export potentially millions of tons of grain due to the overloaded national transportation system. This fall, new GE locomotives are planned to help ensure the grain harvest makes it to market on time.
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All Aboard: Henry Ford's Assembly Line Fits Train Manufacturing To A T

Maggie Sieger
February 01, 2018
"""In 1913, Henry Ford famously offered customers a choice of any color they wanted for their Model T — as long as they chose black. That’s because Japan black paint was the only color that dried fast enough to keep cars moving along his new assembly line. The line allowed him to crank out cars by reducing the time it took to assemble a Model T from 12.5 hours to 93 minutes, revolutionizing production along the way.
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Trains

Now Arriving: The World’s Oldest Trading Empire Is Getting New Trains

Bruce Watson
July 12, 2017
For most of recorded history, Egypt has been at the cutting edge of transportation technology. The country had a canal connecting the Nile and the Red Sea thousands of years before the Suez Canal was built. Egypt boasts the world’s oldest seaport, and in 1852, it also opened the first rail line in Africa and the Middle East linking Alexandria to the city of Kafr el-Zayyat.
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Minds-Machines

On The Right Track: Software Is Helping Make European Trains Smarter

P D Olson
June 14, 2017
Outside of the Island of Sodor, where Thomas the Tank Engine and his magical friends live, trains don’t usually speak. That’s about to change in Europe, where locomotives are set to start talking to their operators and maintenance crews through data collected from thousands of sensors.
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Trains

The Heaviest Haul: A New Locomotive Factory Will Put This Indian State On The Fast Track

Tomas Kellner
December 25, 2016
GER: You were also involved in movies.
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Trains

Brains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 21, 2016
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend.
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A digital revolution coming down the freight-rail track

August 08, 2016
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of coal a day rumbling out of 50 mines, along a network of some 2,700 kilometres of heavy-haul track to three coastal hubs for export. Aurizon’s Central Queensland Coal Network (CQCN) is one of the largest coal rail networks in the world. It carries dozens of trains running mine to port and port to mine—around 85 services daily—aiming to synch with the movements of ships bound for Japan, China, South Korea, India and Taiwan. Now, consider that most of that rail line is single track. Let’s pull over for a moment.
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A Sense of Wonder: Photographer Vincent Laforet Tapped His Inner Child When Shooting Locomotives From High Above the Colorado Prairie

September 25, 2015
In March, GE invited the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet to a remote locomotive testing facility spreading over hundreds of acres of shrubby prairie near Pueblo, Colo. Laforet hired a helicopter and produced stunning images of GE’s blue Tier IV train engine while circling over the moving machine.
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