Standard Car Truck Archives

Wabtec Corp. and RPC-UWC (Russian Research and Production Corporation-United Wagon Company) have signed a 10-year agreement for supply of freight car truck castings to the U.S. The joint venture was announced at the Fifth International Fair of Railway Equipment and Technologies EXPO 1520 in Sherbinka, near Moscow.

For freight car truck components, total cost of ownership is far more important than initial cost.

A shifting traffic base is generating improved designs, and a building boom not seen in years.