(Source: Erie Times-News, March 11, 2013)
ERIE, Pa. — GE Transportation doesn’t simply build diesel-electric locomotives. The company, which has its main manufacturing facility in Lawrence Park Township, invented this system of using diesel engines to generate power for electric traction motors. But 96 years after the first diesel-electric locomotive was unveiled, GE Transportation could find itself in a race to develop the technology to replace the diesel.
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