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NEWS RELEASE
Investor Contact: Media Contact:
Jessica L. Greiner Jeff Eller
Director of Investor Relations Trinity Industries, Inc. Trinity Industries, Inc. 214/589-2567
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Trinity Highway Products Provides Progress Update on ET Plus® System Testing

DALLAS - January 9, 2015 - Today, Trinity Highway Products, LLC (a subsidiary of Trinity Industries, Inc., NYSE: TRN) announced that, on January 6, it completed the fourth of eight tests requested by the Federal Highway Administration ("FHWA") of the ET Plus® System. While the tests are data driven, requiring analysis of the full data set before conclusive determinations can be made, the ET Plus® System appears to have performed within the Company's expectations during these four tests. Official test results will be released by the FHWA following their analysis of the data.
The federal standard is for guardrails to be installed on U.S. highways at heights between 27 ¾" and 31". The FHWA has requested four tests be completed at 27 ¾" and four tests at 31" guardrail heights, making a total of eight tests. The first four tests were conducted at a guardrail height of 27 ¾". The vast majority of ET Plus® Systems the Company has sold were for installations at the 27 3/4" guardrail height. The second series of four tests, scheduled to be completed by the end of January, will be conducted at the 31" height.
These tests are being conducted in accordance with National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 350. Report 350 sets forth the safety performance evaluation procedures applicable to the ET Plus® System and many other roadside safety features used on U.S. highways. The ET Plus® extruder heads currently undergoing testing were randomly selected by the FHWA from inventory at the California Department of Transportation and are representative of what is in use on U.S. highways.
For more information on the ET Plus® System, visit: www.etplusfacts.com
Trinity Industries, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a diversified industrial company that owns market-leading businesses, which provide products and services to the energy, transportation, chemical, and construction sectors. Trinity reports its financial results in five principal business segments: the Rail Group, the Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, the Inland Barge Group, the Construction Products Group, and the Energy Equipment Group. For more information, visit: www.trin.net.
Some statements in this release, which are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements about Trinity's estimates, expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies for the future, and the assumptions underlying these forward-looking statements. Trinity uses the words "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "forecasts," "may," "will," "should," "guidance" and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical experience or our present expectations. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" and "Forward-Looking Statements" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year.
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