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O Switzerland’s Stadler Rail is located at Utah’s Inland Port.
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n nearly the same day Utah was celebrating the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in Promontory, another milestone involving railroads, regional infrastructure and the future of U.S. transportation took place in the Northwest Quadrant on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. That’s where Switzerland’s Stadler Rail in May 2019 celebrated its new U.S. headquarters and train production facility, along with such invited guests as Gov. Gary Herbert, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch and
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U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland Ed McMullen. As part of the celebration, Stadler re-enacted the historic meeting of the trains at Promontory Point with the company’s own electric and diesel trains for Caltrain and TEXRail. “Today it is a great pleasure to present a car body of the first double-deck train being manufactured for the USA as well as the last FLIRT for TEXRail,” said Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Stadler Rail Group Peter Spuhler. “To a high degree, these trains were built right here in Salt Lake City.”
