That, my friends, is no ordinary train engine you are looking at here.
Union Pacific 7964, which I happened to see Saturday at the Burkhart Street crossing in Albany, may look like any other modern locomotive. Its distinction is that it was the 5,000th engine in the “Evolution Series” built by General Electric.
The locomotive was built at GE’s plant in Erie, Pa., and delivered to Union Pacific in June 2012. The railroad describes it as “one of the newest, most reliable and most fuel-efficient high-horsepower locomotives in the Union Pacific fleet.”…