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Evolution™ Series Locomotive

Erie, Pennsylvania

GE's Evolution™ Series Locomotive plant in Erie, Pennsylvania built its 1,000th locomotive in 2006. This advanced locomotive is flying off the assembly line.

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• Customer stories

  BNSF recently took possession of the 1,000th Evolution™ Series Locomotive, a major achievement in the assembly of these ground-breaking locomotives.

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• Interview with Leonard Hill & Pete Lawson

  

  Hear how the Evolution™ Series Locomotive represents a new step in engineering and innovation.

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  • GE's Evolution™ Series Locomotive is built in Erie, Pennsylvania, a city with a long and storied railroad history. It produces 4,400 horsepower using a 12-cylinder engine. This is an improvement in horsepower over previous 16-cylinder locomotives and brings with it lower overall emissions.
  • If every locomotive in North America were as clean as GE's Evolution, the annual reduction of smog-producing NOx emissions would be like removing 48 million cars from the road each year.
  • If the largest railroad in North America switched half of its locomotive fleet to the GE Evolution, annual carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by an amount equal to planting more that 31,000 acres of trees.
  • The Evolution™ 's automatic shutdown system reduces its idle time in the rail yard by 35 percent, saving fuel and reducing air pollution and noise.
  • Compared to locomotives built in 2004, a single Evolution locomotive will consume 315,000 fewer gallons of fuel in its lifetime - enough to power another Evolution™ locomotive for an entire year.
  • Compared to locomotives manufactured 20 years ago, the GE Evolution produces 83 percent fewer asthma-causing particles and 60 percent fewer smog-producing NOx emissions.