Big News from America’s North Shore

Originally Posted on May 9, 2005 Last Updated on December 12, 2006

The Erie Times-News reports two amazing stories, General Electric’s plan to build hybrid locomotives and research advancing a “cure” for cancer. GE will be building the first of it’s new locomotives in Erie and John Kanzius is a local resident who has supposedly discovered a way to use radio waves to fight certain types of cancer cells.

To read the Times-News articles you’ll need to register, which is free, but if you’d prefer to skip that, here’s an article from Popular Science that goes into much more detail on the new hybrid locomotives.

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olivia 9 May 2005

Pfft. I can think of bigger news than that!!! ;@}

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ClickNathan 9 May 2005

What like “Local Erie boy goes on raging murderous spree after being lied to one to many times” or perhaps “Foreign girl’s local boyfriend spits on reality and moves into a shack in Torquee.”

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Dennis Weed 10 May 2005

I love the John Kanzius story. I hope it works out. It could save so many lives.

A couple of years ago RailPower Technologies got the idea of producing hybrid switching locomotives. The Canadian company hired a bunch of GE engineers and located their US subsidiary RailPower Hybrid Technologies Corp in Erie at 2021 Peninsula Drive. Seems GE likes their ideas. I wonder if GE will buy them out.

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