09/23/2008 (2:15 pm)
Bombardier signs $276 million locomotive deal
MONTREAL–Leasing company Railpool has ordered 58 Traxx electric locomotives in a deal worth at least $276 million (U.S.), not counting options for a further 80 locomotives, Bombardier Inc. said yesterday.
Bombardier Transportation, the Montreal-based company’s rail equipment division, will do the manufacturing and assembly work at several of its plants in Europe, most of them in Germany.
The delivery of the first locomotives is planned for August 2009.
The Traxx product family is designed for the transport of goods as well as passengers on national and international routes.
The final assembly of the locomotives for Railpool will take place in Kassel, Germany.
The car bodies will be produced at Bombardier’s site in Wroclaw, Poland and the bogies are to be supplied by Bombardier’s site in Siegen, Germany quick payday loans. The propulsion and controls technology and the propulsion equipment will come from the German production sites in Hennigsdorf and Mannheim.
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