The railway industry is speeding up. IST Group wants to edge in on the freight railcar market with its Tikhvin plant. 1 of 2 TIKHVIN, Leningrad Region — In Soviet times this larger-than-life industrial plant in Tikhvin, a city near St. Petersburg, hummed with 20,000 employees and the manufacture of parts for giant tractors. Those days are long gone. But the factory’s […]