By Brenden Bobby Reader Contributor If you grew up around here, you likely learned a bit about steam locomotives during Pacific Northwest History class in high school. Since at least the 1890s, the ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton ...

The Class I railroad (NYSE: UNP) and project partner ZTR Control Systems recently wrapped up testing of the first unit of a ...

Union Pacific Railroad’s legendary steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, will make two whistle-stops in Greeley in July as part ...

In the calm before the surge, BNSF is confident its network can handle the coming wave of import containers from Asia.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the transportation industry accounts for 28 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the largest percentage of any industry. Whether they make ...

GE’s A1A truck is used underneath the builder’s ES44C4 and ET44C4 locomotives. The idler axle in the middle can be raised or lowered to adjust the weight applied to the two powered axles. Chris Guss ...

Their lines of EMD and GE locomotive engine parts are fully equipped with major ... Rubber Products, Shocks/Dampeners (motor truck/center truck), Conical springs, Chevrons, Voltage regulators — new ...

Shorter locomotives tend to have greater distance from truck centers to coupler pins ... alignment control couplers and draft gear (which became common at EMD and GE for all high-horsepower units back ...

This generated pressure for the two locomotive builders to participate, and both Progress Rail and GE Transportation (now Wabtec), with ... and sometimes the truck assemblies are also rebuilt, after ...

The park is home to a train transportation system, including a railroad track, switching crew, and two locomotives. GE Appliances even ... the plant had its own fire truck. "When the facility ...

It rides on GE FB-2 trucks. Ronald A. Plazzotta photo General Electric brought out the 2,250-hp U23B in 1968 as a medium-horsepower general freight locomotive, like EMD’s GP38. It uses a 12-cylinder ...