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Transportation

Forever Young: This Texas Plant Gives Middle-Aged Locomotives Extreme Makeovers

Tomas Kellner
March 26, 2018
GE’s huge locomotive factory outside Fort Worth, Texas, feels like the rumpus room of a giant toddler fond of playing with trains. The place — all 1 million square feet of it — is filled with locomotives in various states of assembly. There are cabs in one corner, wheels and trucks in another, and engines in the middle.
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When Big Data Plays a Matchmaker Between the Environment and Economics

November 03, 2014

From space, Norfolk Southern’s 20,000-mile rail system resembles a neural network and it increasingly works like one, too. The railroad has rolled out a big data system called Movement Planner, which helps intelligently direct the hundreds of trains that ply its rails through 22 states from the Atlantic coast to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River every day.

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