PITTSBURGH - Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) secured a $386 million follow-on order to deliver additional R255 hybrid battery-diesel work locomotives to New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The order is a major step in the Authority's Capital Plan to revitalize the city's transit network infrastructure and improve the capabilities and safety of its maintenance crews.
'The success of the R255 hybrid locomotive is a tribute to the strong working relationship between Wabtec and the MTA,' said Alan Hamilton, Vice President of Engineering for Wabtec. 'Our collaboration positioned this locomotive as the ideal solution to maintain the subway system efficiently and reliably.'
The expanded agreement includes both locomotives and spare parts. Wabtec will build the R255s at its design and development center in Erie, PA, with deliveries scheduled to start in 2027. These state-of-the-art hybrid locomotives will replace aging equipment, offering enhanced reliability and operational efficiency while contributing to improved air quality across the network. The locomotives are a cornerstone of the MTA's broader modernization efforts, aligning with the authority's long-term strategy to deliver safe and efficient transit solutions.
The R255 hybrid locomotive benefits the MTA's maintenance crews by improving the working conditions, especially in the tunnels. It can eliminate emissions by utilizing battery power during subway construction, maintenance, and repairs, especially during extended periods at a work site. The approximately 500-kwh locomotives can work in 'battery only' mode within confined work zones for several hours and can move work trains when the third rail power is deenergized.
The locomotive also features advanced capabilities that further empower the maintenance crews and support their day-to-day work. Each R255 has cameras and video recorders to capture images of the track, lineside assets, and signaling equipment across the network. It also features onboard diagnostics to support smart maintenance practices.
About Wabtec Corporation
Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) is focused on creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. The company is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for the freight and passenger rail industries, as well as the mining, marine and industrial markets. Wabtec has been a leader in the rail industry for over 155 years and has a vision to achieve a zero-emission rail system in the U.S. and worldwide. Visit Wabtec's website at www.wabteccorp.com.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation is one of the world's leading suppliers of value-added technological equipment, systems and services for the transportation sector. The activity is aorganized primarily around 5 families of products and services:
- equipment: diesel-electric and liquefied natural gas locomotives, electric motors, propulsion systems, marine and mining equipment, etc.;
- electronics and special products: including electronic positive train control and pneumatic braking systems, event recorders, monitoring equipment, couplings, gears, couplers, air compressors and heat exchangers;
- transit products: heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment, doors for buses and metro cars, pantographs, window assemblies, couplers, traction motors, etc.;
- brake components and friction products;
- refurbishment, overhaul and construction services: suburban locomotive construction and switching, overhaul and refurbishment of buses, subway cars and locomotives.
Net sales per market are divided between rail freight transport (71.9%), bus, metro and high-speed train transport (28.1%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (47.4%), North America (8.6%), Asia and the Middle East (20.3%), Europe (17.5%), South America (4.3%) and Africa (1.9%).
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