As I was standing on the Franklin Avenue Bridge, I kept hear a revving up of an engine, and wondered down the hill to find this. GECX 4400 is now a testbed unit for AC4400/AC6000 locomotives, and... (more)

GECX 6002 is out on the GE Test track for tests with the first Hybrid unit, GECX 2010

Assorted GE test engines, a UP motor and a Patched C&NW motor rest in the back lot of GE Transportation.

General Electric Evolution Hybrid demonstrator 2010 on display at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in Los Angeles, CA, on May 24, 2007. Also on display are Union Pacific ES44AC 7625 and BNSF ... (more)

Finally the Gevo Hybrid unit made its way out on test for the past week strechen its legs out. The batteries are under the walkway and are still being adjusted.

Ge's only dash9 is leading todays test train which has many wires for monitoring the new hybrid Gevo

Still looking very much like an SP tunnel motor this day. Sure wish these were still visiting Katy.

UP's Avondale diesel shed gets some colorful visitors.

On a snowy March 18, 1993, General Electric has readied a 'new' coal-sludge-fueled C39-8 for testing on Norfolk Southern. It and another GE test unit and passenger test car were placed on the NS ... (more)

Power moves

A rare unpatched GECX ex-SP snoot-nosed tunnel motor leads todays MSJRV. A plane leaving the San Jose airport can bee seen above UPY 615, a GP15-1 "baby tunnel motor."

This former SP SD40T-2 sits among the sea of yellow UP units sitting at UP's Lesperance Street Yard tower. The St. Louis skyline is visible in this shot. Canon 350D, 28-80mm.