National Railway Equipment Company
National Railway Equipment Co. ( NREC, NRE) is an American company based in Mount Vernon (Illinois ). The company was founded in 1984 by Lawrence Beal.
National Railway Equipment specializes in the manufacture and refurbishment of locomotives and locomotive parts. In addition, the company continued maintenance, maintenance and technical emergency service offers. A collection of around 500 locomotives is to buy or rent. In North America, NRE has nine production sites. This also acquired in the summer of 2002, subsidiary VMV Enterprises, also known as " VMV Paducahbilt ".
Since 2006, the company with the "N - ViroMotive " Genset locomotives emission vehicles to. For the international market, the company offers under the name "E - Series" a locomotive with an axle load of 17 tons and from 1470 to 2575 kW.