GE Delivers 3,000th Evolution Series Locomotive

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GE Transportation Delivers 3,000th GE Evolution Series Locomotiveto Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ)

March 18,2009--ERIE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that its customer Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) has taken delivery of the 3,000th Evolution Series® locomotive produced at GE Transportation’s Erie, Pennsylvania manufacturing site. The Evolution is the most technologically advanced diesel electric, heavy-haul locomotive to-date. One Evolution Series locomotive can pull the equivalent of 170 Boeing 747 “Jumbo Jet” airliners.

In 2006, KTZ ordered 310 GE Evolution Series locomotives and the first ten units, including the 3,000th, have arrived in Kazakhstan. Three hundred additional locomotives will be assembled in Kazakhstan starting at the end of 2009 from kits and parts produced in Erie.

This is the 3,000th Evolution Series locomotive since its introduction to the market in 2005. Four years ago, GE Transportation reinvented what a locomotive could be, and today, with this major milestone delivery, 3,000 Evolution Series locomotives are now serving the infrastructure development of countries around the world, while providing economic and environmental benefits of fuel savings and decreased emissions. Beyond Kazakhstan, GE Transportation has developed innovative locomotives based on the Evolution Series platform for markets in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt and the United States.

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One Evolution Series locomotive can pull the equivalent of 170 Boeing 747 “Jumbo Jet” airliners.

That is impressive.

This is the 3,000th Evolution Series locomotive since its introduction to the market in 2005.

How many other engine series have produced this amount of slaes in this amount of time?

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GE Transportation has put a video up of the Kaz locomotive. The video is located in the lead story under "Click here to watch a video of the 3,000th Evolution dedication ceremony". The background voice over is of the ceremony but the majority of the video is of the locomotive.

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