America's newest national park recently opened on the South Side of Chicago. The Pullman National Monument celebrates the unique history of a company that mass-produced freight and passenger rail cars at the site from 1881 to 1981.

MILTON, PA—ACF Industries has reopened its rail car assembly plant here, initially hiring 230 employees.

LA POCATIERE, QE—The union representing 330 striking workers at a Bombardier rail car assembly plant here is taking a short pause from a week of intense contract negotiations with the company.

SACRAMENTO, CA—Siemens Rail Systems has begun a push to diversify the products it assembles here, positioning itself to make trolley cars, locomotives, subway cars, train coaches and bullet trains.