End of the Line For Cartersville Train Company

A rail car company in Northwest Georgia has told state officials over six hundred people will be laid off this summer.

Employees at the Trinity North American Freight Car plant in Cartersville make rail road equipment. And by the end of August, that work will be idled as the plant is closed and some 659 fewer employees will be laid off.

The company did release a statement saying "The plant closure is due to a downturn in orders in that sector of the business."

Northwest Georgia is already reeling from chronic double digit unemployment. Counselors from the Georgia Department of Labor will meet with Trinity workers next week to go over services that the state agency can provide. Trinity’s Cartersville plant has been open since 2001.