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Discussion of General Electric locomotive technology. Current official information can be found here: www.getransportation.com.

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 #756654  by MEC407
 
In addition to the 10 AC44i locos that GE is building for Brazilian railroad ALL, GE announced today that they are going to build 50 AC44i locos for Cosan Combustiveis e Lubrificantes, part of the sugar and ethanol group Cosan Ltd.

The deal is worth $130 million (which puts the per-unit price at $2.6 million, if my math is correct).

As with the ALL order, the locomotives will be assembled in Brazil, but the FDL engines will come from Grove City, PA.

Sources:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/art ... RTUNE5.htm

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/sing ... tives.html