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Wabtec to Modernize 330 Norfolk Southern Locomotives

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
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Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) announced today an additional multi-year order from Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) to modernize 330 locomotives as part of its continued partnership.

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  • Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) announced today an additional multi-year order from Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) to modernize 330 locomotives as part of its continued partnership.
  • Modernizing locomotives in our fleet will improve operational performance and reliability, said Tom Schnautz, Vice President Advanced Train Control for Norfolk Southern.
  • Wabtec will modernize D9-44CW locomotives that are more than 20 years old and transform them into AC44C6Ms, which will add another 20 years of incremental life to each locomotive.
  • Our modernization program allows Norfolk Southern to enhance its existing fleet by bringing the aging locomotives performance to the latest standards, said Pascal Schweitzer, President of Wabtec Freight Services.

U. S. Steel, Norfolk Southern, and Greenbrier Collaborate on New, Sustainable High-Strength Steel Railcar

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Thursday, December 9, 2021
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Using an innovative formula for high-strength, lighter-weight steel developed by U. S. Steel, each gondolas unloaded weight is reduced by up to 15,000 pounds.

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  • Using an innovative formula for high-strength, lighter-weight steel developed by U. S. Steel, each gondolas unloaded weight is reduced by up to 15,000 pounds.
  • Gondola railcars transport loose bulk material such as metal scraps, coils, wood chips, steel slabs, and ore. Norfolk Southern will initially acquire 800 of the Greenbrier engineered gondolas.
  • U. S. Steel is a leader in designing advanced, lightweight and high-strength steel solutions for the automotive industry.
  • The high-strength steel requires less structural reinforcement, simplifying the manufacturing process and allowing more total cargo space in each railcar.

Wabtec Celebrates the 1,000th Modernized Locomotive in the Americas

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Friday, August 6, 2021
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The fuel efficiency benefits of these 1,000 locomotives have reduced carbon emissions by more than 1.4 million tons since 2015.

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  • The fuel efficiency benefits of these 1,000 locomotives have reduced carbon emissions by more than 1.4 million tons since 2015.
  • Norfolk Southern accounts for 500 of the 1,000 locomotives Wabtec has modernized.
  • Each modernized locomotive in Norfolk Southerns fleet reduces more than 500 tons of carbon emissions per year.
  • Wabtecs modernization program also reduces emissions by reusing the existing steel on the locomotive through a robust requalification and remanufacturing process.