FreightCar America

[6] It is engaged in the business of building, repairing, and leasing freight cars, largely for the transportation of bulk materials like coal, metals, wood products, and automobiles.

[7] The facility in Roanoke was closed in 2009 due to weak economic conditions,[7] but it was announced on 21 February 2011, that it would reopen after an order for 1,500 coal cars from the Norfolk Southern Railway.

[14] On August 2, 2018, it was announced that The Andersons Inc. had signed an agreement to purchase FreightCar America Inc.'s rail-car facility in Danville, Illinois.

The Andersons Rail Group would provide rail-car repair, painting, blasting, cleaning, tank-car certification, and scrapping at the facility.

On September 10, 2020, after receiving a $10 million Paycheck Protection Program loan intended to help businesses continue paying their workers,[15] the company announced it planned to close its facility in Cherokee, Alabama by approximately the end of that year.

Company president/CEO Jim Meyer cited "the depressed rail car market and the devastating impact and ongoing threat of COVID-19" as reasons for the decision.