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GE Transportation Wins Order for 50 Locomotives for Kansas City Southern

June 25, 2018

GE Transportation’s long order drought is starting to seem like a distant memory.

The company confirmed June 21 that it has booked an order to deliver 50 new Tier 4 locomotives — the newest, most environmentally friendly models — to both the United States and Mexico rail subsidiaries of Kansas City Southern.

Neither party disclosed the dollar value of that contract.

While parent company General Electric Co. has agreed to sell the locomotive division to rail equipment maker Wabtec Corp., GE Transportation continues to show signs of staging a comeback after a prolonged slump prompted the layoffs of more than 1,600 at the company’s Erie plant.

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