L.B. Foster Company engages in the manufacture, fabrication, and distribution of products and services for the rail, construction, energy, and utility markets. It operates in three segments: Rail Products, Construction Products, and Tubular Products. The Rail Products segment provides new and used rail to railroads, mines, and industry. This segment also offers rail accessories, such as trackwork, track spikes, bolts, angle bars, and other products to install or maintain rail lines; designs and produces concrete railroad ties, insulated rail joints, power rails, track fasteners, coverboards, and special accessories for mass transit and other rail systems; and engineers, manufactures, and assembles friction management products, railway wayside data collection and management systems, and related products, as well as stick friction modifiers and related application systems. The Construction segment sells and rents steel sheet piling, H-bearing piling, pipe piling, and other piling products for foundation and earth retention requirements; manufactures and sells fabricated steel and aluminum products primarily for the highway, bridge, and transit industries, including grid reinforced concrete deck and open steel grid flooring systems, guardrails, expansion joints, bridge decking and railing, and structural steel fabrications; and produces precast concrete buildings, including restrooms, concession stands, and other protective storage buildings. The Tubular segment supplies pipe coatings for natural gas pipelines and utilities; and produces threaded pipe products for industrial water well and irrigation markets. L.B. Foster Company markets its products directly in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, as well as through a network of agents in Europe, South America, and Asia. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.