Roy Hill, an iron ore mining, rail and port operation in western Australia, is one of the first buyers of Wabtec's new FLXdrive, a battery-electric locomotive built in Erie. The locomotive is designed ...

The new year is off to a history-making start for Wabtec Corp., Erie County's largest industrial employer. The company, which operates its largest plant at the edge of Erie in Lawrence Park Township, ...

Modernizing our country's rail system, if done right, can create thousands of family-sustaining jobs. Some of those jobs would manufacture cleaner, safer green locomotives, the future of rail ...

SUGARCREEK — The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum has received the 2025 Significant Achievement Award – Steam from the HeritageRail Alliance for the cosmetic restoration of the Bessemer & Lake Erie No.

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Building 10 at GE Transportation, a massive brick structure where generations of Erie workers have built locomotives, was eerily quiet Friday. It’s no mystery why. “We used to build ...

On the heels of job losses in 2020 and 2021, Wabtec Corp., Erie County's largest industrial employer, began to gain traction in 2022. Catering to concerns about the environment and fuel efficiency ...

Contract negotiations between the country’s largest locomotive manufacturer and its striking unions are continuing in Erie, Pennsylvania, nearly two months after some 1,400 workers walked off the job.

Some 1,400 members of two United Electrical Workers (UE) locals went on strike Thursday at the Wabtec locomotive plant in Lawrence Park, outside Erie, Pennsylvania after rejecting the company’s “final ...

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