Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Board of Directors has approved a contract with Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. to manufacture 428 rapid transit cars, known as the 7,000-Series model, for $886 million. Approximately 300
Vancouver’s TransLink incentive to expand, and market, rail and transit options. The momentum is likely to continue.
L.B. Foster Co. announced Friday that it is extending its previously announced cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Portec Rail Products, Inc., until July 30. The tender
U.S. carloadfreight and intermodal traffic once again looked better in the week ended May 22, compared with 2009 levels, but “has leveled off after 12 consecutive weeks ofgains,” the Association of American
Florida East Coast Railway said Friday James Hertwig will become President and CEO of the company effective July 1, 2010. Hertwig previously was president and CEO of Carolina Freight Carriers Corp., president
A joint venture between Russian Railways and Salzburg, Austria-based Alpine Bau GmbH, called Alpine-RZDstoy GmbH, will carry out work on the project to reconstruct railway tunnels 6 and 7 on the Sochi–Matsesta
The U.S. Department of Transportation has released nearly $80 million in grants as part of the first, $8 billion U.S. high speed and intercity passenger rail program. A portion of Florida’s $1 billion-plus
CSX Transportation Thursday announced that it has entered into a rail security partnership with the State of Florida that represents a model CSX hopes to use with other states it serves. Entitled
The Metropolitan Council, the regional transit planning agency for Minnesota’s Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Wednesday approved a 14-mile Southwest Corridor light rail line linking Minneapolis to Eden Prairie, Minn.
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority Wednesday locked in roughly $1 billion in capital funding by signing an oft-delayed contract with Related Companies, joined by Oxford Properties Group, to develop the MTA’s Hudson
Russian Railways, Siemens AG, and Russia’s Aeroexpress signed a Memorandum on Production, Supply and Servicing of Modern Russian Trains on Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, site of the next Winter Olympics in 2014.
Efforts to (re-)establish the first streetcar route in Washington, D.C. were first dashed, then resurrected, in a 24-hour period, as the City Council first cut $47 million in funding, then restored the
The Railway Systems Suppliers, Inc. C&S Exhibition, held May 17-19 in Omaha, Neb., drew 1,712 attendees, “not including spouses,” RSSI said in a statement Wednesday. Of those attendees, 989 were supplier representatives,
U.S. Class I railroad employment totaled 149,749 in mid-April, up 1.21% from March but down 2.93% from April 2009, according to a Surface Transportation Board count posted Wednesday on STB’s website. The
Bombardier Transportation said Wednesday it has signed a cooperation agreement with the Augsburg Transport Authority (Stadtwerke Augsburg Verkehrs GmbH) to “install the contactless and catenary-free BOMBARDIER PRIMOVE system for trams as apilot
The Chlorine Institute (CI) isn’t yielding any ground on a CI-sponsored Positive Train Control cost-benefit study purporting to show that contrary to railroad arguments, the government-mandated installation of PTC by 2015 will provide strong economic
The fate of 233 miles of rail in Maine’s Aroostook and Penobscot counties may be determined by a referendum on June 8 in which the state will seek approval to issue bonds to
St. Paul, Minn.’s Central Corridor light rail transit project Tuesday “received permission today to enter final design, the last step before award of a federal Full Funding Grant Agreement for the biggest
Affordable coal-based electricity has helped ensure America’s position as a global economic superpower, and freight railroads are a big reason for that, Association of American Railroads (AAR) President and CEO Edward R.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has selected Cubic Transportation Systems to manage and operate WMATA’s SmarTrip®Regional Customer Service Center (RCSC), a smart card-based fare collection system, designed and integrated by Cubic
