MotivePower, Inc. (MPI) was an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives. The company traces its history back to being a division of Morrison-Knudsen (MK) since 1972.Morrison-Knudsen Locomotives
on American-rails.com After MotivePower spun-off from MK, the company merged with the air brake manufacturer WABCO to form " Wabtec" in 1999, remaining as a brand of it.

History

Morrison-Knudsen established a separate rail division, MK Rail, in 1972. Morrison-Knudsen spun-off the division in 1993; it became a publicly traded company in 1994. After Morrison-Knudsen's bankruptcy in 1996, MK Rail renamed itself "MotivePower Industries", doing business as "Boise Locomotive". The company merged with Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) in November 1999 to form the Wabtec. Wabtec renamed the Boise Locomotive division to "MotivePower" in 2000. MotivePower continues as a wholly owned subsidiary of Wabtec. On September 18, 2019 several months following Wabtec's merger with GE Transportation, Wabtec announced the MotivePower Boise plant will close in early 2020 and production shifted to Wabtec's legacy GE Transportation plant in

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Products

MotivePower's flagship product is the MPI MPXpress passenger locomotive. Over two hundred locomotives have been built for

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operators in the United States and Canada. * MPXpress * MPE^X Switchers ( MP14B, MP20B, MP20C, & MP21B) * HSP46 * MP8AC-3 (R156) * CBH class ( MP27CN, MP33CN, & MP33C)

Services

Completed at the Wabtec Erie shop in Erie,

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, MotivePower also does overhaul work for several agencies throughout the US. These include: * CTrail *

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* New Mexico Rail Runner Express *

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* MBTA Commuter Rail * Metro-North *

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* {{MPI Locomotives Locomotive manufacturers of the United States Wabtec Companies based in Boise, Idaho Manufacturing companies based in Idaho 1994 initial public offerings 1999 mergers and acquisitions Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange