Progress Rail Innovations Pvt. Ltd. (formerly EMD Locomotives Pvt. Ltd. (Progress Rail, A Caterpillar Company) have a business relationship with Indian Railways (IR) dates back to 1959 and includes delivery of freight and passenger locomotives to India, as well as technology and expertise behind the locomotives. At a time when other locomotive manufacturers were unwilling to do so, EMD successfully transferred state-of-the-art technology to Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi. This has resulted in the local production of a fleet of more than 2,500 EMD diesel-electric locomotives, which are deemed highly productive by IR, with an impressive availability and reliability rate, far superior to the other diesel locomotives in India.
EMD Locomotive (Progress Rail, A Caterpillar Company) has a Corporate Office and a world-class Assembly Unit / Plant in NOIDA. In addition, it has a Regional cum IT Office in Bangalore and a Sales office in DLW, Varanasi.
EMD also provides service support to multiple IR locomotive facilities with a network of dedicated service personnel. Locations include: Pune, Trichy, Sabarmati, Jodhpur, Siliguri, Lucknow, Gooty, Tughlaqabad, Itarsi, Raipur, Kazipet, Abu Road, Patratu, Mughal Sarai, Katni, Ratlam, and Vizag