Bombardier Transportation said Wednesday it will supply 18 additional doubledeck coaches to Germany’s Deutsche Bahn (DB) AG. The order isworth approximately 24 million euros ($33 million). DB AG is exercising an option from
Trespassers on railroad rights-of-way aren’t always on foot. During the winter months, some may be on snowmobiles. Operation Lifesaver considers this serious enough to justify a public service video, which has been
MTA New York City Transit’s new R160 subway cars have set a record for service reliability: A Mean Distance Between Failures (MDBF) of 1.2 million miles for the month of December 2009.
MTA Metro-North Railroad has awarded Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM) an $18.9 million construction management services contract for a design/build project at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. The project will convert an
LaGrange, Ill.-based Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. said Monday it has received the the Illinois Governor’s Continuous Improvement Award, marking the fourth time it has been honored for its significant achievements in protecting the
Intermodal continues to solidify its market share of U.S.freight transportation, particularly against the trucking sector, according to an analysis released by FTR Associates. The Nashville, Tenn.-based firm said intermodal’s share of U.S.
Greenwich, Conn.-based Genesee & Wyoming Monday said its net income during the fourth quarter of 2009 was $18.3 million, down roughly 28% from $25.3 million in the comparable 2008 quarter. The company’s
An in-house Amtrak study, entitled "Amtrak Fleet Strategy," has framed the need to upgrade its aging passenger rolling stock at cost of $11 billion (2009 dollars) during a 14-year period. Amtrak also
Montreal’s Agence Metropolitaine de Transport (AMT) Friday said it had chosen literal hometown candidate Bombardier Transportation with a three year, C$34 million (US$31 million) contract to provide locomotive and passenger car maintenance.
Light rail transit proponents in metropolitan Los Angeles Thursday notched a victory when the Expo Construction Authority approved Phase II of the Expo Line; the second phase, a 7-mile, $1.5 billion addition, would extend the line from Culver City to Santa Monica, Calif. Phase I is currently under construction, linking Culver City with downtown Los Angeles. The Expo Line roughly parallels Interstate 10.
Railway Age is now accepting entries for its annual Short Line/Regional Railroad of the Year competition. Short lines and regionals—and there are more than 500 of them—are invited to submit entries describing
U.S. rail carloads for the week ended Jan. 30 totaled 278,438, up 7.0% from the same week last year–but that’s comparing one recession week with another. When compared with the corresponding week of 2008,
Wall Street sources said the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which has $12.6 billion of outstanding debt, will find it more costly to borrow new money following the disclosure this week that
Canadian National Thursday said it plans to establish a new C$100 million (US$93 million) CN Calgary Logistics Park (http://www.cn.ca/calgarypark) in Conrich, located in Rocky View County, northeast of Calgary, Alberta. The 680-acre park
President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget proposes $1.82 billion in funding for 27 major transit construction projects, including $834.6 million for 19 new projects. “From New York City to Honolulu and areas
The American Public Transportation Association says President Obama’s commitment in his new budget to continued high speed rail financing leaves one important component unfunded. “We are disappointed the President’s budget does not
In its latest quarterly report on the freight car market, Economic Planning Associates said railcar builders will continue to face “strong headwinds” this year, but anticipated gains in both commodity and intermodal traffic could stimulate
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Tuesday said President Obama’s $79 billion budget includes an additional $1 billion for higher speed passenger rail (HrSR) corridors as well as $4 billion for a National Infrastructure Innovation
In the first 11 months of 2009, rail crossing fatalities declined 17.8% to 222 compared with the same period to 2008, and trespasser fatalities were down 7.2% to 399, according to a preliminary report
A podcast of the interview with Railway Age’s 2010 Railroader of the Year, BNSF Chairman, President, and CEO Matt Rose, is accessible on Railway Age’s website by clicking www.old.railwayage.com, then clicking “Video:
