And a few bigger companies elsewhere in Poland, such as Pesa, a locomotive-maker, and Solaris, a manufacturer of buses and trams, are doing well thanks to a strong focus on R&D.
Three weeks ago, the company purchased the German engine maker MWM Holding from the British private equity firm 3i, and in June, Caterpillar bought the locomotive manufacturer Electro-Motive Diesel.
Tata, which started as a locomotive and truck maker, has gradually built market share in the car business over the last 20 years on the strength of modestly priced cars and sport utility vehicles.
Electro-Motive is the second-largest maker of locomotives in North America, after General Electric, and for most of its history was a unit of General Motors.
He is also a shareholder in Transmashholding, Russia's largest maker of locomotives and rail equipment.
Amtrak, which received $112 million of the Obama package to improve its Northeast Corridor, uses trains from Alstom and Bombardier, the world's biggest maker of passenger locomotives.
Bombardier, the Montreal-based company that is the world's largest maker of passenger locomotives, and Munich-based Siemens are helping to build the system.
General Electric, the U.S. conglomerate that is the world's biggest maker of freight locomotives, announced a partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Railways in November to manufacture equipment for U.S. high-speed rail projects.
Still others, like the Goodman Equipment Corporation, a maker of small locomotives for mining and tunnel building, are shipping their main products in the old volumes, but feeling the slowdown in sales of spare parts, a secondary source of revenue.
