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FORT WORTH, Texas — In October 2022, following my attendance at the Railway Supply Institute Expo and Technical Conference, I also had a chance to visit Wabtec’s locomotive assembly plant in Fort Worth. My visit happened to fall on the day Canadian National accepted the first of a series of 50 remanufactured AC44C6M locomotives [see “Canadian National receives first diesel …,”Trains News Wire, Oct. 17, 2022], but before that brief ceremony, I had a chance to take a tour of the facility. Here are a few photos.
5 thoughts on “A visit to Wabtec’s Fort Worth factory”
I would love to see speed lettering done on the side of the locomotives for UP.
” UNION PACIFIC ”
The Railroad of the West.
I toured this plant when it was building new locomotives, not rebuilds. It is so clean inside you could eat breakfast off the floor. Basically, back then, it was just an assembly factory since all parts except the cab were manufactured else where (mostly Pennsylvania) and shipped to Ft Worth. It was fairly quiet inside since any area that made noise was contained in a room. Painting also contained.
Love this article. I remember the EMD open house in 70’s that I was at in La Grange. IL for the 100th million horsepower. It was a warm sunny day and their were a lot of brand new SD40-2’s there plus different track gauges for export locomotives. what a great day and time that was, lots of people there also.
I would love to see speed lettering done on the side of the locomotives for UP.
” UNION PACIFIC ”
The Railroad of the West.
I toured this plant when it was building new locomotives, not rebuilds. It is so clean inside you could eat breakfast off the floor. Basically, back then, it was just an assembly factory since all parts except the cab were manufactured else where (mostly Pennsylvania) and shipped to Ft Worth. It was fairly quiet inside since any area that made noise was contained in a room. Painting also contained.
Love this article. I remember the EMD open house in 70’s that I was at in La Grange. IL for the 100th million horsepower. It was a warm sunny day and their were a lot of brand new SD40-2’s there plus different track gauges for export locomotives. what a great day and time that was, lots of people there also.
Too bad there was no chance to get a shot of a finished cab interior. Very interested in newest cab controls and equipment, especially PTC stuff.
Pretty cool thanks for posting the pics