![Zoltan recently received a service award from his engineering colleagues at Wabtec for “Putting the brakes on a coupler career.”](https://clone.railwayage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-27-at-2.31.43-PM-315x168.png)
Watch: Wabtec Celebrates Zoltan’s 60 Years of ‘Magnificent’ Service
At age 87, Zoltan (Zoli) Kovacs is many things: a proud father, grandfather, and great-grandfather; an accomplished martial arts master and teacher; and a dedicated life-long learner, something he applied every day at Wabtec in his role as Regional Manager, Transit. But most of all, he’s a competitor—a fierce one at that!—who likes nothing more than translating his knowledge of rail applications into new Wabtec customers.