Shown: Pandrol clips being installed with the CD400 Clip Driver. Photo – Pandrol GE Transportation on Dec. 6 marked the 20th anniversary of its Global Performance Optimization Center, which maintains and manages locomotive fleets and maintenance resources worldwide. Centers are located in Erie, Pennsylvania; Fort Worth, Texas; Contagem, Brazil; and Astana, Kazakhstan. The facilities operate…
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A rendering of the electric cars. Photo – Caltrain Caltrain’s board late last week unanimously approved the purchase of additional electric train cars to help address increasing ridership on the commuter-rail system.Using funds from the California State Transportation Agency’s (CalSTA) Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP), Caltrain will expand its electric fleet from 16…
The 2005 EMD SD70ACE locomotive is maintained at a Louisiana shop. Photo – KCS Kansas City Southern officials yesterday unveiled a locomotive with a patriotic paint scheme.The scheme demonstrates the company's pride in past and present U.S. military activity duty and veteran employees, said KCS Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Songer in…
The companies will provide 153 additional Azur subway cars, expanding on a 468-car order from October 2010. Photo – Bombardier Transportation A Bombardier Transportation-Alstom consortium has signed an agreement to supply 153 additional Azur subway cars to the Societe de transport de Montreal (STM) for $340 million.The agreement expands on an October 2010 order for…
The railroad is supplementing its aging fleet as it continues a longer-term procurement of new or remanufactured locomotives, Metra officials say. Photo – Metra Metra's board has approved the purchase of three used F59PH locomotives from Progress Rail for $2.5 million.The railroad is supplementing its aging fleet as it continues a longer-term procurement of new…
Rail-car orders in the third quarter totaled 24,972 units compared with 23,788 units in the second quarter and 10,348 units in the first quarter, according to quarterly rail-car statistics released earlier this week by the Railway Supply Institute's American Railway Car Institute Committee. In third-quarter 2017, orders totaled 8,671 cars.Car deliveries in Q3 declined to…
The centerbeams are being manufactured at National Steel's plant in Hamilton, Ontario. Photo – cn.ca CN has begun to roll out the first of its new centerbeam rail cars ordered earlier this year from National Steel Car Ltd.CN received the first of 350 new centerbeams in August. The new builds are 73-foot riserless centerbeams with…
The locomotives will be produced in early 2020. Photo – ge.com Iowa Interstate Railroad Ltd. (IAIS) will acquire three new Evolution Series locomotives from GE Transportation, the railroad announced yesterday.The locomotives will be produced in early 2020 and used to transport grains, ethanol, metals and other commodities across Iowa Interstate's network between Chicago and Omaha,…
TNW executives, left to right: Jeff Davis, chief operating officer; Wade Hoffmann, vice president marketing and sales; Robert Murchison, owner; Paul Treangen, chief executive officer;…
Chinese-state owned rail-car maker CRRC is building Red and Orange line vehicles for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Photo – MBTA Mayor Domenic Sarno of Springfield, Massachusetts, has asked the Trump administration to end tariffs on Chinese-built rail cars.In a letter obtained by New England Public Radio, Sarno told U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer that…