The story of century-old GE Transportation has included some dramatic plot twists in recent years. In the past five years alone, the company built its first North American locomotive plant outside of ...

Most railfans will not dispute this statement: The most iconic General Electric locomotives to be employed by Amtrak were the Genesis series. These streamlined, monocoque-body (single shell) ...

A Norfolk Southern locomotive that has finished the modernization process. In this slideshow, take a look behind the scenes of how a locomotive is modernized in the GE Manufacturing Solutions facility ...

After a couple of down years, General Electric’s locomotive plant in Fort Worth is back to cranking out lots of shiny new railroad equipment. The enormous plant near Texas Motor Speedway in far north ...

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 ...

GE Transportation has been battered by a drop of about 10% in the last couple years in North American freight railcar loads. Thousands of locomotives are sitting unused amid dwindling coal production ...

A locomotive is being refurbished and modernized at GE's factory in Fort Worth After some bad years, things are looking up for the freight rail industry right now — and that’s being felt at GE’s ...

The year ahead seems likely to be one of seismic change for GE Transportation. But there's one change that appears unlikely to happen on schedule and as planned, and that's good news for the union ...

When General Electric announced in 2011 it wanted to build a railroad locomotive plant in far north Fort Worth, government and business leaders rolled out the proverbial red carpet — and a plethora of ...

General Electric Co.GE-2.71%decrease; red down pointing triangle is looking to exit from the railroad business, one of its oldest, as new Chief Executive John Flannery seeks to streamline the ...

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 ...