How Wall Street Destroyed America’s Greatest Locomotive Empire.

General Electric once turned Erie, Pennsylvania into the locomotive capital of the world. From massive diesel-electric machines to the legendary Evolution Series, GE built the iron giants that pulled the weight of modern freight across America and beyond. But this empire did not fall because its machines were weak. It fell because the company behind them began to value numbers on a balance sheet more than the people and factories that made those machines possible. This is the story of how one of America’s greatest locomotive empires was slowly hollowed out from the inside. #GELocomotives #RailroadHistory #AmericanManufacturing