Wabtec Corporation Announces Webcast Of Quarterly Earnings Conference Call

WILMERDING, Pa.--July 15, 2004--Wabtec Corporation invites interested shareholders and other stakeholders to listen to its 2004 second quarter earnings conference call live over the Internet on Friday, July 23 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. William E. Kassling, chairman, president and chief executive officer, and Alvaro Garcia-Tunon, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will host this discussion of the company's 2004 second quarter financial results.

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed on the "What's New" page of Wabtec 's web site at http://www.wabtec.com/corp/whats_new.asp.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

Wabtec Corporation (www.wabtec.com) is one of North America's largest providers of value-added, technology- based products and services for the rail industry. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures a range of products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles. The company also builds new switcher and commuter locomotives, and provides aftermarket services, including locomotive and freight car fleet maintenance. The company has facilities located throughout the world. Wabtec's mission is to be judged by its stakeholders as the world-class corporation focused on helping its global customers compete more effectively through higher levels of safety, quality and productivity.