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In November 2004, Nortrak acquired the assets of Rail Products and Fabrications including a trackwork plant and a manganese foundry in Seattle, Washington. [1] In 2007, Nortrak purchased two buildings in Cheyenne which allowed the company to add prestressed concrete railroad ties to its business lines. [1]
The first American locomotive at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1826 The Canton Viaduct, built in 1834, is still in use today on the Northeast Corridor.. Between 1762 and 1764 a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British Army engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage in Lewiston ...
National Railway Equipment Company (reporting mark NREX) is an American railroad equipment rebuilding, leasing, and manufacturing company, headquartered in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. NREC sells new and rebuilt locomotives to railroad companies worldwide, with an emphasis on the North American market.
See Dieselisation in North America. Though electric railways expanded in Europe, they never reached the same popularity in North America. They were built primarily in the north-west and the north-east beginning in the late 19th century. While some railroads used electric locomotives for both freight and passenger trains, by the end of the 20th ...
North American Car Corporation (1955–), Chicago, Illinois [9] (carbuilding operations to Trinity Industries 1986) North Carolina Car Company (1882–) Raleigh, North Carolina [9] North-Western Manufacturing Car Company (c. 1880–) Stillwater, Minnesota [9] Norwich Car Company (1847 – c. 1852) Norwich, Connecticut [9]
Founded as a recycling company in 1982, Progress Rail has increased the number of its product and service offerings over time to become one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services in North America. [4] Progress Rail markets products and services worldwide and maintains 110 ...
Also in 2019, Greenbrier acquired American Railcar Industries (ARI), a transaction valued at $400 million. [29] The acquisition added two railcar manufacturing and two railcar component and part producers to Greenbrier's operations, increasing the company's U.S.-based workforce and insulating it from uncertainties related to North American free ...
This was followed by the acquisition of the second-largest French railway manufacturer [12] ANF Industrie with its main plant in Crespin in 1989. [8] Bombardier Transportation had become by that time the leading North American producer of rail equipment which had sold 825 subway cars to New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. [13]