[2] Becoming a subsidiary of Bombardier, it took the name Bombardier-Concarril SA de CV, and production resumed at the Ciudad Sahagún facilities.

[4][5] It also supplied subway cars to the Santiago Metro, in Chile[3] (specifically the NS-88 trainset as a replacement for an NS-74 train that was destroyed during a terrorist attack in 1986);[citation needed] that was part of an effort by the Mexican government in 1990 to boost exports of manufactured goods, which also encompassed a planned sale of 200 Concarril-built freight cars to Venezuela.

[10] At the time of its sale in 1992 to Bombardier Transportation, Concarril was the largest manufacturer of railway rolling stock in Mexico.

[4] The partnership was named Greenbrier-Concarril LLC, and Greenbrier subsidiary Gunderson managed the U.S. company's involvement, as Gunderson-Concarril SA de CV.

[16] Bombardier won contracts for two of the largest rail vehicle contracts in North America, 204 Flexity Outlook and 182 Flexity Freedom streetcars, for the Toronto Transit Commission, and MetroLinx, a regional transit authority in the Greater Toronto Area.

Welding the basic chassis was to take place in the Ciudad Sahagún factory, before shipping them to its facility in Thunder Bay for final assembly.. Bombardier fell years behind in delivery of these vehicles.

Reports in the Canadian press repeated claims that the workers in the Thunder Bay plant that the work done in Ciudad Sahagún was not competently performed.