Round 4 - Championship Round
VOTING TAKES PLACE Oct 4 - 9

​The final round of the NE Manufacturing Alliance's Coolest Thing Made In Nebraska competition will select the winner for the 2022 contest.

​Vote below to select YOUR favorite Coolest Thing Made in Nebraska.

VOTES AFTER OCTOBER 9 WILL NOT BE INCLUDED IN FINAL TOTAL
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Top Products in the Coolest Thing Made In Nebraska Contest

Coolest Thing
NYC Subway Car
-  Kawasaki Motors Mfg. Corp., USA ​

The R211 is a new technology subway car for the New York City Transit Authority (NYCT). The contract consists of 1,612 cars, producing 40 cars/month. The R211 is three distinct car types.  R211A cars for NYCT, R211T cars have open gangways to increase passenger capacity. The R211S for the Staten Island Railway.  The design features 58” doors, reducing on-boarding and train sitting times in stations. Include digital displays with real-time rider information, brighter lighting and signage, aerodynamic bonnets, and other features.

​Coolest Thing
Pivot Walker
- Chief Fabrication

Used for pivot irrigation, The Chief Pivot Walker was a concept brought to Chief Fabrication by a central Nebraska farmer.  The idea is to reduce pivot ruts in fields to prevent damage to equipment, injuries to livestock, and to reduce field work of closing pivot tracks, saving time and money.  The all steel wheel is practically maintenance free and will never go flat.  The wheel traps mud as it “walks” through the field and any water in the shallow track can run across the pads of the wheel either direction eliminating the squeegee effect of constant rolling tires. How cool is that? Nebraska farmer design, produced in a Nebraska manufacturing facility, and shipped all over the US and overseas.  Nebraska farmer, Nebraska manufacturing, and Nebraska used.  It doesn’t get much more Nebraska than that!

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