Testing the software of the Fastbrake brake control system from Wabtec (USA)

Wabtec's (USA) Fastbrake brake control system software has been tested.

Wabtec Corporation (a derivative of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation) is an American company formed by the merger of Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Wabtec manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars, and passenger vehicles, and also builds new locomotives with outputs up to 6,000 horsepower (4 MW).

The company merged with GE Transportation on February 25, 2019.

In September 2021, at an event in Pittsburgh, Wabtec unveiled the world's first battery-electric freight locomotive. This was the result of a joint venture with Carnegie Mellon University and is part of the two organizations' initiative to develop zero-emission technology. Using a traditional locomotive body, the conventional diesel engine was replaced with a large battery that powers the locomotive's traction motors. Regenerative braking is used to recharge the batteries.

Wabtec stated that the next version of the locomotive, to be developed within two years, will reduce diesel fuel consumption by nearly a third, and that emissions can be completely eliminated through the development of associated hydrogen fuel cells.