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Wabtec Corp. has signed its largest-ever locomotive agreement, a $4.2 billion deal with Kazakhstan's national railway.

The agreement is for 300 Evolution locomotives, which will be assembled in Kazakhstan using kits from U.S. facilities.

It is unclear if the deal will create new jobs at the company's Lawrence Park plant in Erie County.

Wabtec Corp. which operates its largest factory in Lawrence Park, has signed the largest locomotive agreement in the company's history — a $4.2 billion deal for 300 locomotives.

It's not immediately clear, however, whether the agreement will lead to more jobs for Erie County.

Wabtec, which purchased GE Transportation in 2019, reached what the company called a landmark agreement with Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, the national railway of Ka

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