In addition, all long-distance trains operating on the NEC will be powered by the new locomotives.
It recently did precisely that in facilitating the sale of 150 General Electric locomotives to Pakistan.
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People in the area are also put to work building the locomotives and rail cars.
That is why diesels have traditionally been used mostly in heavy machines, such as locomotives and lorries.
Mechanical looms, steam- powered locomotives, gasoline engines, electric motors ? none had an instant effect on productivity.
It was the first red ink seen since 1945, when the company was founded to make locomotives.
The delivery of new locomotives to pull the ore trains, among other items, has fallen behind schedule.
That's what it figures to get for its infrastructure division with aircraft engines, locomotives, power plants and wind turbines.
Also, higher demand for locomotives resulted in increased volumes and better price realizations.
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Once dominant, these New Economy locomotives could run with negative friction, always picking up speed like some superconducting profit phenomenon.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has enacted some very strict emission requirements for locomotives, which will become effective in 2015.
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Steam passenger Tube trains were last in operation in 1907, but steam locomotives hauled freight and engineers' trains until 1971.
West paints other trains, including the Steam, Gas turbine, Electric, as well as first through sixth Generation Diesel Electric Locomotives.
Most sales will be big-ticket items like power plants and locomotives, where profit margins rise rapidly after the overhead is covered.
In the railroad industry, it took decades to get rid of coal-shovelers, holdover from steam locomotives, from the cabs of diesel engines.
Train World curators, meanwhile, have been grappling with the vast number of pieces they have uncovered: 208 locomotives, passenger and freight cars.
Submarines and locomotives have operated on the same principle for a century.
He's betting there will be increasing demand for things like high-efficiency jet engines and locomotives that go farther on a gallon of diesel.
While there is no shortage of state-of-the-art diesel technology in America, it mostly appears in engines for big rigs, buses, tractors and locomotives.
In the power systems business that manufactures and sells a variety of engines and diesel-electric locomotives, sales were driven by petroleum and rail applications.
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It operates fourteen mines in the Pilbara, with a thousand miles of rail and a hundred and sixty locomotives, twenty-four hours a day, year-round.
Tuesday's sale of the remaining stake gives GE cash to focus on its industrial businesses, such as building train locomotives, wind turbines and lights.
Rhinos charged the locomotives and giraffes chewed on the telegraph lines.
Hybrids use diesel power where there were no overhead electric cables so could be used across the network without having to change locomotives or crews.
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In Scranton, a sooty mining town, she was miserable when the locomotives were fitted with iron skirts that hid how the wheels and pistons moved.
Progress Rail decided on building locomotives in America in April 2010.
We found that over 70% of the tonne-miles carried by one railway in the state of Sao Paulo consisted of its own firewood and steam locomotives.
The journey can be made today because under-bridges on the rebuilt Swanage Railway were strengthened during the early 1990s to carry Merchant Navy class steam locomotives.
Perhaps coal handlers employed on diesel-electric locomotives, mafia goons controlling space at the municipal convention center or Broadway musicians paid even if the show doesn't need them.
Locomotives and crews got bunched up in yards when they were needed elsewhere, so the company had to pay for extra crews to move the locomotives around.
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