CN Orders Wabtec FLXdrive (Updated)
CN is buying a Wabtec FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive for use on the Bessemer & Lake Erie (B&LE) portion of its network in Pennsylvania.
Carnegie Mellon University
FLXdrive ‘Electrifies’ Pittsburgh
If electrical industry pioneer and railroad air brake inventor George Westinghouse, who hailed from New York State but established his namesake company in Pittsburgh, Pa., were around to see the Wabtec (Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies) FLXdrive battery locomotive, he’d be shocked—figuratively, of course.
CMU’s Posner Lays Track for Future of Rail Transit
(Originally published on the Carnegie Mellon University website.) A bright orange, battery-powered train breaks the lush green stillness of Rockhill Furnace, Pa., as it traverses track originally laid in 1876. At the
Congress Proposes Launch of Freight Rail Innovation Institute
New legislation has been introduced in Congress to establish a Freight Rail Innovation Institute (FRII) in which a university research partner and a locomotive manufacturer would work to develop zero-emission locomotives.
Wabtec, G&W, Carnegie Mellon to Launch Research Institute
Wabtec President and CEO Rafael Santana announced the establishment of a research institute in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Genesee & Wyoming (G&W), during a recent House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing.