GE to sell GETS (GE Transportation GE Rail) to WABTEC

[mtuandrew]

If someone had told me in 1998 that MPI would own GETS and Cat would own EMD instead of the reverse, I would have told you that you were crazy.

Interesting ownership structure... one that could mean GE could later merge the whole WABTEC consortium if its stockholders like the ROI.

[Gilbert B Norman]

Here was likely Westinghouse's last hurrah building a locomotive as prime - contractor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylva ... _class_E3c

The bodies were "subbed" to Baldwin.

[jamoldover]

You do realize we're talking about a different Westinghouse here...

Westinghouse Air Brake (now WABCO, the company GETS is being merged with) is not the same company as Westinghouse Electric (who was the locomotive builder). While George Westinghouse may have been the founder of both companies, they've never been under common ownership.

[Ira]

Wondering what will become of the Erie plant moving forward.

[Allen Hazen]

What Jamoldover said.
Both companies had presence in the Pittsburgh area when I lived in Pittsburgh in the early-mid 1970s, and were known as Wemco (W'house Electrical and Machinery, I think: the company that built some early diesel locomotives in the 1920s/1930s, and (often with mechanical portions by Baldwin) many PRR (and other) electric locomotives), vs. Wabco (W'house Air Brake), the ancestor of the Wabtech that is merging with GETS.

For those interested in non-electric, non-diesel, locomotives... PRR 4483, the last surviving I-1sa, now at a railroad museum in upstate New York, spent a number of years on the front lawn of the Wabco plant in Wilmerding/Turtle Creek (eastern suburb of Pittsburgh), visible from the PRR main line.

[Gilbert B Norman]

Here's more regarding the locomotive noted by Mr. Hazen:

http://www.trainweb.org/wnyrhs/4483Frame1Source1.htm

[XC Tower]

Curious here about the fate of GE's Erie Plant....Is everything in a holding pattern pending a decision regarding WABTEC's purchase?....I am a bit confused over this. Is it a purchase of GETS or a merger?..
Thank you for any clarification.



XC

[Ronal U18C Indonesia]

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