The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Wednesday gave ProTran1 LLC a Notice to Proceed to install ProTran1’s ProTracker Alert System on all GCRTA’s transit vehicles. Blue Anchor, N.J.-based ProTran1’s contract with GCRTA
Wabtec Corp.’s Vapor Rail unit has won a contract worth about $30 million to supply electric, sliding plug doors for 440 subway cars to be built by Hyundai Rotem for the $14 billion Marmaray project
Efforts by local groups to turn back a proposed streetcar line for Cincinnati fell short at the ballot box Tuesday. By a 56%-to-44% margin, voters rejected Issue 9, a proposed charter amendment
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Tuesday reported third-quarternet income of $21.7 million, up from $21.2 million in the third quarter of 2008. The company’s third-quarter diluted earnings per share slipped to $0.53 with
Atlanta-based software provider RMI Tuesday said it has acquired ExpressYard, a Flint, Mich.-based provider of SaaS software applications that support the billing of railcar repairs for contract shops and railroads in North
Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the holding company led by well-known billionaire Warren Buffett, announced Tuesday it has reached agreement with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. to purchase the roughly 78% of BNSF
Norfolk Southern and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are investing $11 million to expand track and parking capacity in the railroad’s intermodal facility at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. In an announcement Monday, NS
U.S. rail-related fatalities declined 12.4% to a total of 466 in the 12 months ended Aug. 31, according to the Federal Railroad Administration’s Office of Safety. Only 12 of these were employee fatalities, down
HNTB Corp. announced Monday it has hired Eugene Skoropowski as passenger rail services director for its South East Division, based in the firm’s Lake Mary, Fla., office. Skoropowski will step down this
The expected $300 million deal between the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and AnsaldoBreda for 100 light rail transit cars, and a new manufacturing plant to be built in the county,
BNSF Railway Co. said Friday it leads surface transportation providers in climate change disclosure, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which represents 475 institutional investors with $55 trillion in assets under
U.S. carload traffic fell 14.8% for the week ended October 24, compared with the same week a year ago, the Association of American Railroads reported. Carloads in the West and the East
Portland, Ore.’s fledgling commuter rail line, Westside Express Service (WES), struggling with operational issues plaguing its three Colorado Railcar diesel multiple-unit (DMU) cars, will add two vintage Budd Co. rail diesel cars
Pittsburgh-based Portec Rail Products, Inc. Thursday reported unaudited net income of $2.02 million, or 21 cents per share, for its third quarter, down 19.5% from $2.52 million, or 26 cents per share,
Alstom SA will let go as many as 502 employees at its Hornell, N.Y., rail assembly plant, beginning in January. The move follows the release of roughly 200 employees last spring; the
Wimerding, Pa.-based railroad equipment supplier Wabtec Corp. said Thursday its third-quarter earnings fell 18%, due to a fall indemand for new freightcars. But its earnings of $27.3 million, or 57 cents per
Kansas City Southern Thursday reported third-quarter revenue of $386.1 million, down 21.4% from the $491.5 million in the third quarter of 2008. But KCS noted that every commodity group recorded higher revenue
Eta Phi Systems, Inc. has appointed Robert H. Glines Director, Business Development, Canandaigua, N.Y. Glines has 31 years in the high tech transit industry, having held senior level positions for transportation systems
As business starts to return to the railroads, more freight cars and locomotives are being put back to work, though the size of the stored fleet remains too large for comfort. Norfolk Southern’s executive
Groupe Eurotunnel SA may bid for the high speed trainline running from the Channel Tunnel to London, Chief Executive Officer Jacques Gounon said in a radio interview on France’s BFM radio station.
