"Key steps planned by the company include:
"Following are questions and answers related to today's announcement:
Q1: Can you be more specific about which manufacturing facilities are being consolidated and/or closed? Which of your businesses are affected? What regions of the world will be impacted?
A: We are contemplating restructuring actions that could impact more than 20 facilities around the world and across our three large segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation. There are many factors that impact these contemplated decisions and the subsequent timing of when each would be announced and implemented. Employees will be notified as decisions are made for each facility........"
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/building-for-a-stronger-future-caterpillar-announces-restructuring-and-cost-reduction-plans-300148347.html
What effect on Caterpillar's locomotive division?
It appears most of the restructuring is within the equipment side of the business.
Gee,I didn t know that a company that makes dump trucks,wheel loaders.motor graders,track type loaders,mining shovels,backhoes,bulldozers,articulated dump trucks would recieve all this attention in a railroad website like this one.
CAT owns EMD through its Progress Rail subsidiary. That is why CAT is important to the rail industry.
John
cat992c Gee,I didn t know that a company that makes dump trucks,wheel loaders.motor graders,track type loaders,mining shovels,backhoes,bulldozers,articulated dump trucks would recieve all this attention in a railroad website like this one.
I believe Caterpillar owns EMD (Electro Motive Diesel).
Prior to the acquisition of EMD by Progress Rail, Caterpillar had been trying to break into the railroad market for some time. Several roads had re-powered SD45/SD40's with 3600 series Caterpillar engines. I'm not sure how successful the re-powerings were. Some of the MK/MPI road switchers also have Cat engines.
Well,
EMD effectively being knocked out of the North American new locomotive market until the year after next is certainly not going to help the parent company's bottom line..
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The 3600, know known as the C280, was the only road locomotive size engine CAT had. The fact that EMD have developed the 1010 means that CAT management have accepted that the C280 does not have a future in locomotives. They have developed the C175, which is of course a smaller engine (the number is the cylinder bore in mm) but the C175 has cross flow heads, for the first time in a CAT engine. Cross Flow Heads were a feature of the GE FDL but they gave that up adopting the HDL from Deutz which became the GEVO. EMD, when building the 265 from scratch went with cross flow, posibly because the competition had them.
The C175 is in the size range of the MTU 4000 and Cummins QSK95 and is competing with those engines in the passenger market.
As I've said elsewhere, there are similarities between the C175 and 1010 that are probably not coincidental.
CAT have put a lot of money into these two engines and the locomotives they power and I expect to see more about them fairly soon.
M636C
M636C What? Caterpillars have had cross flow heads for ever it seems. Here is a link to an image of a D399. https://www.google.com/search?q=caterpillar+d399&biw=1252&bih=602&tbm=isch&imgil=x6bs2u6Vrwlr4M%253A%253Bk8wnKHBprT5osM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.depco.com%25252Fgenerator-sets%25252Fcaterpillar-d399-800kw-generator-set-item-09947%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=x6bs2u6Vrwlr4M%253A%252Ck8wnKHBprT5osM%252C_&usg=__yeegMhY8Pa5mZh6tOP1l6b6bumM%3D&ved=0CDsQyjdqFQoTCM_xiOXe58gCFcZbiAod5MwNew&ei=6RgyVo_ZI8a3oQTkmbfYBw#imgrc=x6bs2u6Vrwlr4M%3A&usg=__yeegMhY8Pa5mZh6tOP1l6b6bumM%3D CSSHEGEWISCH wrote the following post 12 hours ago: Prior to the acquisition of EMD by Progress Rail, Caterpillar had been trying to break into the railroad market for some time. Several roads had re-powered SD45/SD40's with 3600 series Caterpillar engines. I'm not sure how successful the re-powerings were. Some of the MK/MPI road switchers also have Cat engines. The 3600, know known as the C280, was the only road locomotive size engine CAT had. The fact that EMD have developed the 1010 means that CAT management have accepted that the C280 does not have a future in locomotives. They have developed the C175, which is of course a smaller engine (the number is the cylinder bore in mm) but the C175 has cross flow heads, for the first time in a CAT engine. Cross Flow Heads were a feature of the GE FDL but they gave that up adopting the HDL from Deutz which became the GEVO. EMD, when building the 265 from scratch went with cross flow, posibly because the competition had them. The C175 is in the size range of the MTU 4000 and Cummins QSK95 and is competing with those engines in the passenger market. As I've said elsewhere, there are similarities between the C175 and 1010 that are probably not coincidental. CAT have put a lot of money into these two engines and the locomotives they power and I expect to see more about them fairly soon. M636C
What? Caterpillars have had cross flow heads for ever it seems. Here is a link to an image of a D399.
https://www.google.com/search?q=caterpillar+d399&biw=1252&bih=602&tbm=isch&imgil=x6bs2u6Vrwlr4M%253A%253Bk8wnKHBprT5osM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.depco.com%25252Fgenerator-sets%25252Fcaterpillar-d399-800kw-generator-set-item-09947%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=x6bs2u6Vrwlr4M%253A%252Ck8wnKHBprT5osM%252C_&usg=__yeegMhY8Pa5mZh6tOP1l6b6bumM%3D&ved=0CDsQyjdqFQoTCM_xiOXe58gCFcZbiAod5MwNew&ei=6RgyVo_ZI8a3oQTkmbfYBw#imgrc=x6bs2u6Vrwlr4M%3A&usg=__yeegMhY8Pa5mZh6tOP1l6b6bumM%3D
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