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Alstom Alstom is one of the largest manufacturers of rolling stock and equipment. The head office is located in France as are many of the plants, but production is pretty much scattered around Europe nowadays. European wide production units include Alstom's Pendolino tilting high speed trains unit in Italy (ex. Fiat Ferroviaria) and joint ventures with Transmasholding (umbrella for Russian manufacturers). Out of the broad product portfolio the best know are TGV and AGV trains + tilting Pendolino trains. Alstom has also a product line of electric and diesel locomotives as well as local and regional EMU's and Hybrid "DEMU's". |
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 TGV-POS is one of the Alstom family of super high speed trais including AGV, TGV and on the high speed side Pendolino. |
 Some of the older French locomotives from Alstom. |
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Manufacturers pages: Alstom France | |||
| AnsaldoBreda Ansaldobreda is one of the newer manufacturers with high ambitions. Product portfolio has i.e. IC4 trains for Danish DSB + high speed Albatross V20 trains for Belgium/Netherlands. There are discussions about Ansaldobreda's and Bombardier's fusion, the companies could together create super high speed rolling stock for the emerging markets in Europe, China, U.S. and Russia. Ansaldbreda manufactures it's products worldwide. Manufacturers pages: AlsaldoBreda Italy AnsalBreda North America |
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| Bombardier Bombardier is a large truly international manufacturer of the modern and innovative railroad technology and rolling stock. Like Alstom Bombardier has as well digested several railroad equipment manufacturers like German Adtranz and has been doing widespread cooperation with other manufacturers. Bombardier has manufacturing in Europe and North America. The product portfolio consists of regional EMU's, DMU's, trams, etc. According to research Bombardier might also enter the growing super high speed market. |
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 One of the Bombardier built tilting EMUs in Sweden. |
 Another unit in Uppsala Sweden.
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| Manufacturers Pages: Bombardier Worldwide | |||
| General Electric GE the largest corporation in the world GE has a railroad division as well. The most known products for this area are it's North American diesel electric locomotives. These locomotives have gained a dominant market share on their home market during the last 3 decades, quite an achievement from a relative newcomer in the field! With US market falling in 2009-2010 for all players the GE has foreseen this and managed to sell several hundred locomotives of it's older model to China. There is also a demand in the former Soviet Union to modernize aging fleet of M62s, and the GE has been keen on trying to enter this huge market as well. For the next generation GE is developing hybrid locomotive, which should enter road testing phase sometime in 2010.
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 One of the numerous GE AC44DCs for BNSF waiting for its turn to cross the mountains in Bakerfield California. |
 Two examples of the over 1000 unit fleet of the GE C44-9Ws at BNSF service!  |
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| EMD - Electro
Motive Division The second largest manufacturer in the U.S. market the EMD has been very succesfull in many export markets as well. The EMD was a dominant builder in the 5 first decades of diesel production. The challenge from the GE using a clever product life cycle portfolio led to almost total loosing of the markets in the next 3 decades, furthermore aided by constant troubles on the EMD engine, electrical and the crew comfort issues. After EMD regained it's independence from GM in early 2000's the most successfull models in the North American markets have been the SD70ACe nad SD70M-2. For the export markets EMD is producing the very successfull Class66 (JT42CWR / JT42CWRM) locomotives. |
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 A typical North American passenger locomotive for today, the EMD F59PHI for the Amtrak California. |  One of the heard of once thousands of EMD SD40-2s in the North America. | ||
| Talgo To be added later. | |||
| Transtech To be added later. | |||
| Siemens Siemens' transportation unit is well known for its numerous electrical train solutions. As the inventor of the first practical electric locomotive in 1879 the company still has after all those years a strong position as the supplier of the electric trains. Examples of the product line are super high speed Velaro and ICE3 EMUs. Velaro has recently been very successfull on the world market gaining the lead market share in the new deliveries. Manufacturers Pages: Siemens AG of Germany |
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| Stadler Innovativity and good sales can lead to success, Stadler started with little orders for Switzerland and currently is one of the largest EMU/DMU manufacturers in Europe. Stadler has several factories around Europe to cope with growing production. Company web channel: Stadler Winterthur AG |
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Vossloh Vossloh is one of the leading diesel hydraulic locomotive manufacturers in Europe. Company web channel: Vossloh AG |
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