GE had owned the rail business, now known as GE Transportation, since 1907 and eventually turned it into one of the largest makers of freight locomotives … There is a two-mile test track along the eastern edge of the plant where locomotives are tested for different durations, depending upon the customer's requirements. General Electric Co. is the world’s largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives. Apart from manufacturing 80 locomotives a year, the company will maintain them for 12 years. A Wabtec locomotive manufacturing facility, which was formerly a GE plant until March, delivered its 1,000th Evolution Series Tier 4 locomotive at its Fort Worth plant.
The locomotives tackle everything from mile-long ore trains in the Australian outback to overcrowded passenger trains in India.

In a separate building adjacent to the locomotive factory, GE also produces specialized mining equipment. The company will deliver the first locomotive to the railways by January 2018, said Nalin Jain, president and CEO, rail, mining, defence and aerospace, GE. GE Transportation’s plant in Contagem, Brazil (MG) has unveiled a new approach to manufacturing locomotives with a mixed-model moving assembly line. Its products are used by numerous railroads to haul freight and passengers. The GE Manufacturing Solutions plant is in north Fort Worth. General Electric Co. plans to end most locomotive manufacturing at a century-old Pennsylvania factory as the company looks to cut costs amid a sharp downturn in the domestic rail market. (May 12, 2011) - GE Transportation, the world’s leading maker of rail and transportation products, announced today that it intends to open a new locomotive manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to meet accelerating global demand. BNSF intends to buy 500 locomotives in the coming year, with roughly half being built at GE’s Fort Worth plant, said John Lovenburg, BNSF environmental vice president. In 2012, GE Transportation, a subsidiary of General Electric (NYSE: GE), opened its locomotive plant in north Fort Worth, near the Texas Motor Speedway, and now produces an average of 1.2 locomotives per day. GE Transportation's sprawling facility covers 340 acres and parts of it date back 100 years or more. The plant employs more than 500 people and operates two shifts daily (7 … Fort Worth, Texas and Erie, Penn. The company plans to sell or spin off its locomotive plants in Fort Worth and Erie, Pa. Star-Telegram archives It is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois while its main manufacturing facility is located in Erie, Pennsylvania. A senior railway ministry official said as part of the Madhepura contract, Alstom will supply 800 locomotives over 10 years. Thousands of GE machines are in operation every day throughout the world. A flexible assembly line allows operators to build brand new machines alongside refurbished units. GE Transportation is a division of Wabtec.It was known as GE Rail and owned by General Electric until sold to Wabtec on February 25, 2019.

The million-square-foot factory opened in January 2013. The organization manufactures equipment for the railroad, marine, mining, drilling and energy generation industries.The company was founded in 1907. As part of the pact, GE will import 100 locomotives and manufacture the rest 900 at the factory. GE will invest up to $96 million in the new plant and will create more than 500 new high-tech manufacturing jobs. The Lean Manufacturing system, one of the first in the industry, differs from the traditional stationary line with a design that enables employees to assemble different locomotive configurations on the same line.

The plant employs more than 500 people and operates two shifts daily (7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. to 11 p.m.). In fact, remanufacturing has become an important part of GE Transportation’s business strategy. GE announced in 2011 that it was opening a new, non-union locomotive manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, ostensibly for overflow work.
By April of that year, GE had announced it was cutting 950 jobs in Erie to move production to Fort Worth, prompting protest walkouts. The five-year-old GE Manufacturing Solutions (GEMS) locomotive plant boasts more than 1 million square feet of floor space.