Westinghouse Air Brake Co. - 1930's-50's dated Pennsylvania Railway Stock Certificate

Railroad Stock. Historic company founded by George Westinghouse in 1882. Great train vignette. Available in Blue, Green or Orange. Please specify color.

The Westinghouse Air Brake Company (sometimes nicknamed or abbreviated WABCO although this was also confusingly used for spinoffs) was founded on September 28, 1869 by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier in the year he had invented the railway air brake in New York state. After having manufactured equipment in Pittsburgh for a number of years, he began to construct facilities & plants east of the city where homes for his employees were built. In 1889, the air brake manufacturing facility was moved to Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, & the company's general office building was built there in 1890. WABCO's direct successor companies include WABCO Vehicle Control Systems, a commercial vehicle air brake manufacturer; & Wabtec, a railway equipment manufacturer, which have been owned & operated independently of each other since the mid-twentieth century.

The Westinghouse Air Brake Company was established by George Westinghouse in 1869. In 1889, the Air Brake plant was moved to Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, a small farming town located 14 miles (23 km) outside of Pittsburgh. At the time, was only inhabited by about 5,000 people. Socialism was strong in Wilmerding, & it was thought to be “The Ideal Town” for the company because of its location immediately adjacent to the Pennsylvania Railroad & its mainly blue-collar inhabitants. In the 1890s, the Air Brake Company employed 3,000 citizens from the surrounding Pittsburgh area, but the bulk of its workforce consisted of the firm's employees lived in the vicinity of Wilmerding. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Air_Brake_Company