WHAT'S CHINESE FOR "WE CAN HANDLE IT"? Recent issues of Railway have featured new North American diesel technology on offer overseas. A larger version of the Class 66 is under development for use on European lines with slightly more generous clearances than Britain's. Although Union Pacific and CSX decided that 6,000 horsepower in a single unit is a bit much, an export version of the SD-90 called the JT56ACe is in production in China.

Both models are products of Electro- Motive Diesel, once a division of General Motors that the company spun off, presumably to plow more capital into its truck and sport-ute divisions.