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Back on track
The railroad industry is picking up steam again, after losing ground decades ago to the nation’s trucking industry. And Pittsburgh’s expertise and history in the business—Andrew Carnegie and the city’s other industrialists needed good ways to move their steel a century ago—has put the region on track to benefit from rail’s resurgence.
Western Pennsylvania is home to companies that build railroad cars, make parts to run the cars and fix the tracks beneath their wheels. Railroad signalling—a key element in helping trains avoid running into each other—keeps engineers busy on the South Side, while a company in Sharon refurbishes train wheels and couplers for reuse.
“Go to any railroad or any subway or transit station in North America and you will see that we have [products] in every locomotive, every freight car, subway car or transit bus,” said Albert Neupaver, president and CEO of Wabtec, a Wilmerding-based rail equipment supplier with nearly $2 billion in revenue last year.
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