Miner Enterprises, Inc. reports that it has received orders for more than 1,000 carsets of its Miner Friction Cushioning System (Miner FCS) end-of-car-cushioning (EOCC) devices, adding to the 2,700 carsets already in service. The new orders, expected to be shipped during the next few months, are from Class I railroads and car lessors for boxcars and coil-steel gondolas.
Iron Horse RR Investments, LLC (IHRR), a recently created Florida LLC comprised of seven members, each with years of executive-level experience with financial institutions, management, marketing, accounting and railroad supply, and a combined 200-plus years of experience in the railroad industry, will close on its first acquisition, Superior Sales & Service (SS&S) on April 1, 2022
Metrolinx and Canada’s Ontario Province on March 27 broke ground at Exhibition Station, the western terminus of the new, 9.7-mile (15.6-kilometer) Ontario Line, an expansion of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) rapid transit system.
During Canada’s National Supply Chain Summit in January, Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra announced that a National Supply Chain Task Force would be created “to consult broadly with industry, associations and experts to examine the key pressures and make recommendations regarding short and long-term actions to strengthen the efficiency, fluidity and resiliency of transportation infrastructure and reliability of Canada’s supply chain.” On March 28, co-chairs were named: Jean Gattuso and Louise Yako.
Following an extensive, $2.4 million overhaul, Class II Reading & Northern Railroad (RBMN), Railway Age’s four-time Regional Railroad of the Year, is returning Reading Class T-1 4-8-4 Northern 2102 to the rails with four “Iron Horse Rambles” round-trip excursions between Reading and Jim Thorpe, Pa.: May 28, July 2, Aug. 13 and Sept. 3, with five classes of seating. May 28 is already sold out; tickets are going fast for the remaining three trips.
Alcino De Sousa is Vice President and Managing Director of the Urban Rail Signalling Business, part of the Thales Transport activity. Based at the company’s Global Competence Centre for Urban Rail Signalling in
U.K.-based Tracsis plc, a provider of software, hardware, data analytics/GIS and services for the rail, traffic data and wider transport industries, has acquired Fairport, N.Y.-based rail technology software and services provider RailComm LLC in an all-cash transaction.
TekTracking LLC has expanded deployment of its Commander Terminal Automation (CTA) system on a Class I customer to two additional classification yards in Wisconsin. TekTracking received the orders and delivered materials in this year’s first quarter, with planned cutovers in the spring.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (JBHT) and BNSF have launched a joint capacity expansion initiative to accommodate new intermodal container services and “meet the expanding needs of current customers.”
Railway Age’s 2022 Railroaders of the Year, Keith Creel, President and CEO, Canadian Pacific, and Pat Ottensmeyer, President and CEO, Kansas City Southern, were honored March 15 at the Union League Club of Chicago at the annual Railroader of the Year dinner, hosted by the Western Railway Club.