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(19,429 posts)Progress Rail had 147 facilities involved in providing maintenance, design, signaling, and other services to the rail industry.
It looks like the main viable business of EMD was servicing and re-powering locomotives at their LaGrange, IL and San Luis Potosi, Mexico facilities. Note that LaGrange was EMD headquarters and had 1.2 million square feet, while London, ON had 500 thousand square feet. Based on other comments on this thread, it appears that EMD locomotives had become uncompetitive, and that it is likely that assembly at London was running slowly. London was also an old facility, and it is unclear how much Cat would have to invest to bring it up to standards. Lastly, locomotives and cars assembled in Muncie can be sold to US publicly funded rail agencies which require equipment made in the US.