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Watco Opens National Training Center In Birmingham

| May 23, 2017 @ 5:02 am

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Watco Companies, owner of the Birmingham Terminal Railway and Port of Birmingham, has opened a training center near Fairfield that will bring hundreds of its employees from around the country to Birmingham each year.

The Kansas-based company held a ribbon cutting Monday for its state-of-the-art STAT (Safety Through Awareness and Training) Center.

The STAT Center was created as the company ramped up efforts to provide standardized safety training. The new facility features classroom space, breakout session space, a functional model railroad to assist in nontraditional instruction of railroad operations, a simulator room with two FRA Type II Simulators, two portable desktop-type simulators, and an indoor components training area with a cutaway railcar, air brake simulator rack and other hands-on training tools.“It’s taking our training to the next level, … equipping people better in the field to operate new equipment and to work more safely and efficiently,” said Travis Herod, Watco senior vice president of safety and training.

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