More than 15 years have passed since General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt stepped to a microphone in Washington, D.C., to announce plans for a new hybrid locomotive to be built in Erie. The announcement, ...

General Electric plans to cut 950 jobs at a locomotive plant in Erie, Pa., wiping out most of the site’s recent employment growth, as it shifts some production to a lower-cost Texas factory. The ...

One year after the rollout, Union Pacific is ready to deploy a hybrid battery-electric switching locomotive in a working rail environment. The Class I railroad (NYSE: UNP) and project partner ZTR ...

Progress Rail’s EMD SD70J-BB — billed as the largest battery electric locomotive in the world — has arrived in Port Hedlund, ...

The agency that oversees the U.S. rail network thinks it has a plan to help freight trains switch from diesel to cleaner and less expensive electric power. A Federal Railroad Administration study on ...

General Electric just spun off its century-old railroad division to Wabtec. Factory workers immediately went on strike to protest the new owner's push for mandatory overtime and pay cuts for new hires ...

Fort Hood will commission the Army’s first battery-powered locomotive Dec. 15, a step toward energy resiliency and modernizing military infrastructure.

INDIANAPOLIS — A rare General Electric locomotive from 1898 has a new home in Indianapolis. The nonprofit Hoosier Heartland Trolley Company received the donation. It came from the family of the late ...

NEW DELHI (MarketWatch) -- U.S.-based General Electric Co. GE is planning a joint venture with Indian Railways with a total investment of $100 million to $200 million to make diesel locomotives, ...

General Electric Co said on Sunday its GE Transportation unit will invest about $200 million in a Fort Worth, Texas, locomotive plant and to upgrade its operations in Erie, Pennsylvania. Sept. 18, ...

WASHINGTON — Kazakhstan's national railway has agreed to spend more than a half-billion dollars to outfit its trains with hundreds of new "environmentally clean" diesel locomotives built by General ...