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GE Evolution Series
🇺🇸 United States ·built by GE Transportation· from 2003· Series of diesel locomotive models
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Union Pacific 5304: Hellbus· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. D75 9372-1 (cropped): Mark Levisay· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Evolution Series is a line of diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation Systems (now owned by Wabtec), initially designed to meet the U.S. EPA's Tier 2 locomotive emissions standards that took effect in 2005. The line is the direct successor to the GE Dash 9 Series. The first pre-production units were built in 2003.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 23 years ago, in 2003.
- 4.6 MW is about 54 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 22.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2003
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation
- operators
- BNSF Railway
- top speed
- 121 km/h
- power
- 4.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′ (ES30ACi
- length
- 22.3 m
- nicknames
- GEVO
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q2062654, Wikipedia: GE Evolution Series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.