Caterpillar also plans to convert a mining rail facility in Winston-Salem, N.C., to a manufacturing center for Progress Rail, a wholly owned subsidiary. Some mining truck parts now made there will be made in Decatur beginning later this year. Employees at the Decatur plant also have been recently laid off.
No, Winston-Salem is not a "mining rail facility," it is a lower powertrain facility, i. e. axles for off-highway mining trucks made at Decatur, possibly at Acuna, Mexico, and in China and Russia. Plants uses trucks and no railroad is nearby.