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Article: Wabtec, US&S win Railtrack business.(Wabtec Rail Ltd.; Union Switch & Signal)(Brief Article)

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February 1, 2001
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Railtrack, which owns Britain's rail infrastructure, has awarded separate contracts worth a total of $121 million to Wabtec Rail Ltd., the U.K. division of Wabtec Corp. of Wilmerding, Pa., and Union Switch & Signal of Pittsburgh, an affiliate of the Ansaldo Signal Group.

A $21 million order went to Wabtec Rail Ltd. to design and build 190 high-tech, high-speed ballast cars for delivery this year. One operator using a hand-held radio remote control system will control the ballast discharge doors. The cars will operate in fixed sets of five, with one car in each set fitted with a diesel generator to power the ballast-discharge doors on all five cars. The cars will ...

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