In the Chicagoland area, the home of ASSEMBLY Magazine for the past 60 years, freight trains are a daily fact of life. It’s hard to drive anywhere without encountering at least one long train with numerous cars pulled by powerful locomotives.
Most of those massive machines are made by General Electric Co., the world’s largest manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives. The company has been a leading force in the railroad equipment industry since the early 1900s. For the last 35 years, it has been the world’s No. 1 locomotive builder.