Tracing its heritage to George Westinghouse’s invention of the railway air brake and the founding of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company in 1869, Wabtec Corporation has evolved into a global supplier of freight and passenger rail solutions. In 2019, Wabtec executed a merger with GE Transportation, integrating GE’s locomotive design and manufacturing base with Wabtec’s transit subsystem, braking, and rail component portfolio.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wabtec operates two primary business segments: Freight and Transit. Its Freight segment designs and manufactures diesel-electric locomotives (such as the Evolution Series), battery-electric heavy-haul platforms (FLXdrive), railcar braking equipment, draft gears, and telemetry devices. In passenger transit, Wabtec manufactures HVAC systems, pantographs, third-rail current collectors, friction brake assemblies, and platform screen doors for metro and commuter rail systems.

Wabtec is also an innovator in railway digitalization, signaling, and automation. The company provides I-ETMS (Interoperable Electronic Train Management System) Positive Train Control (PTC) onboard software, trip optimizer energy management systems, centralized dispatch networks, and remote condition monitoring algorithms that analyze real-time locomotive diagnostic telemetry worldwide.