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No production has taken place at Rochelle since October 2017, although staff has remained on the payroll. The 230,000m2 site had the capacity to assemble 120 double-deck coaches a year but has built just 220 vehicles during its six-year existence.You can't stay in business if you can't qualify for the minimum buff test.
NIPPON Sharyo announced on July 24 that its US subsidiary will close its rolling stock assembly plant in Rochelle, Illinois, at the end of this month due to a lack of orders...
No production has taken place at Rochelle since October 2017, although staff have remained on the payroll. The 230,000m2 site had capacity to assemble 120 double-deck coaches a year, but has built just 220 vehicles during its six-year existence.
mtuandrew wrote:Also, Icahn would sooner sell out to CRRC than allow ACF to renter the passenger car business. Not saying it wouldn’t be cool as the first American carbuilder since Morrison Knudsen went out, just utterly unlikely.MK wasn't a true American domestic carbuilder, assembled in Hornell with shells from Brazil (CTA 3200s and MNCR/ConnDOT M-6). MK did build the Viewliner sleepers (including shells) at the Pullman works in South Chicago (arguably the last Pullman stainless cars).