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Union Pacific signs $1.2B loco upgrade agreement with Wabtec, largest ever in U.S. rail history

February 4th, 2026
February 4, 2026 - TRA Newswire -Union Pacific has signed what they describe as a "landmark agreement" with locomotive manufacturer Wabtec Corporation totaling $1.2 billion.Wabtec will modernize Union Pacific’s fleet of AC4400 locomotives. This agreement represents the largest locomotive modernization investment...

CPKC investing US$800 million in American manufacturing with Tier 4 locomotives; Wabtec Fort Worth plant benefits

January 22nd, 2026
January 22, 2026 - TRA Newswire -Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)  is keeping the Wabtec locomotive plant busy in Fort Worth with the purchase of newly built rail vehicles for the North American railroad. This month, CPKC expects to receive the first...

Kazakhstan Awards Wabtec a $4.2 Billion Locomotive Order

September 26th, 2025
September 26, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Wabtec Corporation, which operates a major locomotive manufacturing facility at Fort Worth Alliance announced this week a landmark agreement with National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the national railway of Kazakhstan, to deliver Evolution Series...

Dallas-based Railspire raises $4.6M in funding to develop self-driving locomotives

July 15th, 2025
July 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Dallas-based Railspire, a company that retrofits locomotives for autonomous driving, recently announced it raised an additional $4.6 million in funding. The new investment tops-off and closes Railspire’s fourth funding round, announced in August of last...

Wabtec Fort Worth plant is modernizing 50 Canadian National locos

October 18th, 2022
October 18, 2022 - TRA Newswire - If you see a number of bright and shiny locomotives around North Texas sporting the distinctive CN logo from Canadian National Railroad, they're not lost and looking for their home tracks. CN is having...

Union Pacific Q2 net the same, carloads down / Signs largest loco upgrade deal ever

July 27th, 2022
July 27, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Financial wise: Second quarter net income was static $1.8 billion, earnings per share up slightly Power wise: $1 billion agreement with Wabtec Fort Worth plant will modernize 600 locomotivesUnion Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) today reported...

Union Pacific working to reduce supply chain service challenges

April 14th, 2022
April 14, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Railroads, like airlines, truckers and maritime providers continue to feel the effects of supply chain hiccups. Union Pacific, not immune to service challenges, notified its customers this week that it will remove up to...

GE Fort Worth locomotive plant could recall up to 225 laid off

July 31st, 2017
July 27, 2017 - Dallas Business Journal - Boston-based General Electric (NYSE: GE) could recall 225 workers to its Fort Worth locomotive manufacturing facility six months after laying off more than 200, GE Transportation Chief Executive Officer Jamie Miller told Bloomberg. This comes in wake of the...

Locomotive order slowdown: GE Fort Worth to lay off 250 workers

February 6th, 2017
February 6, 2017 - Fort Worth Star Telegram - Citing a slump in freight rail shipping, GE Manufacturing Solutions has begun laying off about one-third of its workforce at its locomotive plant in north Fort Worth, just west of the Texas Motor...

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