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accession: "0001140361-22-027066"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WAB"
cik: "0000943452"
company_name: "WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORP"
filed_at: "2022-07-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T08:30:08.837749+00:00"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Wabtec secures >$1B deal with Union Pacific for 600 locomotive modernizations

## Summary
- Agreement worth over $1 billion, largest locomotive modernization order in rail history.
- Wabtec will modernize 525 AC4400/AC6000 and 75 Dash-9 locomotives; deliveries start 2023.
- Modernizations expected to improve fuel efficiency up to 18% and reliability by >80%.
- Projected annual carbon reduction of 210,000 tons, equivalent to removing 45,000 passenger cars.
- Third major UP modernization order since 2018; total modernizations exceed 1,030 by 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-22-027066
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WAB
- cik: 0000943452
- company_name: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORP
- filed_at: 2022-07-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943452/000114036122027066/0001140361-22-027066-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943452/000114036122027066/brhc10040013_8k.htm

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