Gets - Supply Side - GE Transportation Systems - Brief Article

Railway Age, Jan, 2004

Effective Jan, 1, the General Electric Co. combined G E Transportation Systems, its locomotive business in Erie, Pa., and GE Aircraft Engines, based in Evendale, Ohio, into a new unit known as GE Transportation. The restructuring is part of a reorganization affecting all of GE's operations, It's designed "to make us more efficient and more understandable to our customers," according to a spokesman.

GETS will now he known as GE Rail and will continue to be headed by President and CEO Charlene Begley. Dave Calhoun, who heads GE Aircraft Engines and who was it charge of the Erie locomotive operation in 1995-1997, will head the now, merged unit.