EMD-CAT to Muncie IN

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A reporter from Toronto traveled 17 hours by bus to visit Muncie and meet with the locals, to see first-hand what the city is like and what the citizens are going through. It's a bit long, but it's a fascinating read.

From The Toronto Star:

Desperate Muncie, Indiana waits in hope of jobs from Caterpillar’s closed London, Ont. locomotive plant

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From The Star Press:

Inside Horizon's exhibit hall, where Progress Rail Services was holding its second job fair in less than a month, hundreds of chairs sat empty in the middle of the large, silent room as company officials quietly conducted a couple interviews in the back.

It was a far cry from the locomotive company's first local job fair Feb. 4, when the event was canceled less than halfway through due to high turnout that saw more than 3,000 jobseekers.

Read more at: http://www.thestarpress.com/article/201 ... /203040322

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From the Muncie Free Press:

That big locomotive manufacturer, Progress Rail, a subsidiary of Caterpillar, is putting more work into the former Westinghouse plant locally, and planning to hire 80 more people in upcoming months.

That news came when Delaware County Commissioners handed over $950,000 in federal funds on Monday to help build a new paint facility inside the plant that manufacturers locomotives for primarily third world rail systems.
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Brad Bookout, the county's redevelopment director, explained the money from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, would help secure more work besides be an extra investment into the building.

Read more at: http://www.munciefreepress.com/node/26509