The Complete GE Locomotive Story From Erie to Wabtec 1918 2025

Описание: A sixty-ton boxcab locomotive rolls onto the Jay Street Connecting Railroad in Brooklyn. Three hundred horsepower. Built by three companies who barely knew what they were doing. It runs for less than a year before being returned to the factory as a failure.

Seventy years later, that failure's descendants will overthrow the most dominant locomotive manufacturer in American history.

General Electric didn't win the locomotive war with revolutionary technology. They won it with patience. Seven decades of building small switchers while EMD built empires. Seven decades of playing second fiddle to competitors who seemed invincible. Seven decades of learning, improving, and waiting for the right moment to strike.

That moment came in 1982, when a prototype locomotive rolled out of Erie, Pennsylvania with something no train had ever carried before. A microprocessor. By 1987, GE had surpassed EMD in market share. They never looked back.

In this video, we trace the complete arc of America's most patient locomotive builder. From Thomas Edison's 1880 test track to the eleven-billion-dollar Wabtec merger. From Alco's junior partner to seventy percent market dominance. From the U-boat that couldn't compete to the Evolution Series that conquered the industry.

The AC4400CW that sold three thousand units. The AC6000CW disaster that nearly matched EMD's SD90MAC failure. The GEVO engine that turned environmental regulations into competitive advantage. And the 2019 sale that ended a hundred and ten years of GE locomotive manufacturing.
Twenty-seven thousand locomotives. Fifty countries. One hundred and seven years. And a simple principle that never changed: build something reliable, improve it constantly, and wait for your competitors to make mistakes.
They called it General Electric Transportation. They should have called it patience rewarded.

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