September 10, 2021

United States Senator Bob Casey and Congressman Conor Lamb visited Carnegie Mellon University to speak at the launch of Freight 2030 (which is an initiative to create a freight rail innovation institute with partners Wabtec, Genesee & Wyoming Railroad and CMU).  Mobility21 Director Raj Rajkumar has been involved with the planning of Freight 2030 with the goal of decarbonizing the rail freight industry.  At this event, Wabtec displayed the industry’s first operating battery electric locomotive.