Geared To Meet Your Needs For The 21st Century

In 1920, PMC began business as a coal company and pioneered the manufacture of quality replacement parts for coal mining equipment, heavy industry and railroad locomotives. Over the years. PMC has grown to become a major supplier of heavy-duty OEM and aftermarket components for the transit, railroad, mining, steel, marine and general industries. Our business is both domestic and international in scope.

PMC product lines include carburized and hardened gears and pinions, resilient transit wheels, axles, wheelsets and gearbox remanufacturing. The company is a major supplier of traction gearing to the world's railroads. Our carburized and hardened Super (lear'. a premium product, is. now recognized as the standard in the railroad industry. Cost saving reprofiling services utilizing Cubic Boron Nitride Grinding technology are offered for GE, EMD and ALCO gears.
In addition, PMC is the manufacturer of her original FCC resilient wheel and a licensee of Bochumer Verein Verkehrstechnik for their state-of-the-art transit wheelset technology. PMC is also a licensee of ZF Bahntechnik for every type of rail transit transmission.

Our industrial group provides quality replacement gearing, crane wheels, pulleys and components to a broad base of heavy industry. This group specializes in gearbox evaluation and rebuild services.



PMC is committed to supplying its customers with OEM and aftermarket parts, components, assemblies and services on time and at competitive level, PMC's manufacturing facilities, including an in-house heat treat department. offer total capability resources.

Our four specialized manufacturing facilities and corporate sales offices are:

  • Penn Machine headquarters and manufacturing facility, Johnstown, PA
  • Rail Trans Division, Blairsville, PA
  • Midwest Gear, Twinsburg, OH
  • Penn Machine Transit Sales, Carnegie, PA
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