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and anything else the railroad needs to keep operational? I know Westinghouse makes brakes but that's all I know.
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In the USA,why has the Caboose been taken off trains like Burlington Nothern trains and the like?
There are many suppliers to the railway industry. Some make the actual equipment, others produce smaller parts that make up larger pieces of equipment.American RR : What does an aspect of green over red mean?
Some non-equipment (not railcars and locomotives) manufacturers include:
-Westinghouse (air brakes)
-Bach-Simpson (speedometers on some EMD locomotives)
-Cobra (brake shoes)
-Dofasco (trucks and bogeys on Canadian locomotives)
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Locomotives are manufactured today primarily by General Electric and Electro-Motive, with a few smaller producers out there.
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Equipment (cars) are produced by some of the following companies (and this isn't a complete list):
-National Steel Car
-Thrall
-Gunderson
-Greenbrier
-Trinity Rail Car
-American Car and Foundry
-Union Tank Car
there are lots !
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You can search the thomas registry, or global spec for any part you can think of that has to do with railroads, and you'll find just about all manufacturers.
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UTCC or Union Tank Car Company makes most of the railroad Tank Cars its amazing how the tank cars are made really impressiveA train leaves from Reykjavík going 60 mph..?
Though some have gone the way of the albatross, the cars you see today could have been manufactured by:Looking for the weight of used railway ties?
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Pacific Car and Foundry
Thrall
PCM
Union
Pullman
General Electric
EMD
Morrison-Knudsen
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There are also many pieces of specialty equipment that are crafted by the railroads that operate them.
Much of the maintenance of way equipment is made by Kershaw, Sperry, Spino.
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Good question.. Sometimes I find companies still producing but had switched to a more lucrative market like truck bodys. I'm sort of out of touch with today's realitys because I've seen many villages in NJ lose the rail service along with the loss of factorys and production. I don't know if this helps but Pennsylvainia was a huge rail service State and It seems to me that the Altoona Valley shops were probably the most densest area for body production!More Questions & Answers ...
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