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Posted 20 September 2014 - 08:31 PM

Railway Age, 9/19:

New York Air Brake marks 125 years

September 2014 marks the start of a year-long New York Air Brake celebration “honoring 125 years of making freight railroads safer and more productive,” according to NYAB President Mike Hawthorne.

The Watertown, N.Y.-based railway supplier was founded in 1890 to build then-new air brake control valves for freight trains. “The company continues that tradition today with products that help the nation’s railroads move consumer goods, commodities, energy resources, and other freight safely and efficiently,” said Hawthorne. NYAB employs more than 800 skilled workers at production facilities in Watertown; China Grove, N.C.; West Chicago, Ill.; and Irving, Tex (the TDS, Train Dynamic Systems, business unit). The company manufactures brake controls and air supply and bogie equipment, and provides rail services “while teams of designers continue their work to engineer products that outperform existing technology to make freight trains safer, more efficient, and more productive,” noted Hawthorne.

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