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NewsAll Aboard Florida selects GE signalling
USA: Private inter-city service promoter All Aboard Florida has selected GE Transportation to supply signalling equipment for the 375 km corridor it plans to use between Miami and Orlando. GE Transportation said its sites in Melbourne and Jacksonville, Florida, would lead the design and engineering, with manufacturing in Warrensburg, ...
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NewsInvestors back Mitsui Rail Capital expansion
NORTH AMERICA: A doubling of Mitsui Rail Capital’s wagon leasing business is envisaged under an agreement for Japanese companies JA Mitsui Leasing and Norinchukin Bank to take a 50% stake in the Mitsui subsidiary. The companies are to acquire the stake through a newly-established special purpose company, JAML ...
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NewsEMD delivers Ferromex locomotives
MEXICO: Ferromex has taken delivery of the first 10 of a batch of 19 additional Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe locomotives ordered last year under a contract which includes an 11-year maintenance agreement. They are expected to enter service by June. ‘We are very pleased to receive the first 10 EMD locomotives ...
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NewsGE Transportation completes testing of Tier 4 engine
USA: GE Transportation announced on April 9 that it had completed production tests of an Evolution Series Tier 4 engine. This was the first engine to be put through a new test cell at the company’s engine plant in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and it will now be sent to an ...
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NewsMetrolinx awards depot PPP contract
CANADA: Provincial investment agency Infrastructure Ontario and Toronto transport authority Metrolinx announced on March 27 that they had awarded a C$860m contract to the Plenary Infrastructure ERMF consortium to design, build, finance and maintain the GO Transit East Rail Maintenance Facility in Whitby under a 30-year concession. According to Metrolinx, ...
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NewsGenesee & Wyoming completes Freightliner acquisition
INTERNATIONAL: Genesee & Wyoming Inc announced on March 25 that it had completed the acquisition of 94% of Freightliner Group Ltd for £492m, plus the assumption of £19m of net debt and capitalised leases. Freightliner’s management team has retained a 6% interest which G&W expects to acquire by mid-2020. In ...
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NewsCentral California Traction locomotives completed
USA: Brookville Equipment Corp has built two BL12CG (Brookville Locomotive 1 200 hp CoGeneration General Purpose) twin-engine genset diesel locomotives for Central California Traction Co. CCT operates two lines in California: the 24 km Central Valley Branch between Stockton and Lodi, and the 90 km Stockton Public Belt Railroad ...
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NewsHarsco acquires Protran Technology
USA: Having acted as exclusive product distributor for a year, Harsco Corp has acquired Protran Technology for an undisclosed price. The New Jersey-based company supplies track worker and train operator safety systems, as well as third rail and overhead power supply test equipment. ‘This investment aligns perfectly with our ...
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NewsGreenbrier orders Danobat wheelset machining equipment
USA: Danobat Group has won an order to supply wagon manufacturer The Greenbrier Companies with wheel and axle profiling machines, including a portal lathe for wheel reprofiling. The contract includes supply of the ‘cutting edge’ equipment by September, along with assembly, maintenance and staff training. Danobat Sales & Marketing Director ...
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NewsOmniTRAX acquires Peru Rail Line
USA: Short line and terminal operating group OmniTRAX announced on February 23 that its Peru Industrial Railroad subsidiary had agreed to purchase the Peru Rail Line from the City of Peru, Illinois. The price was not disclosed, but local media reports put the figure at $1·25m. The 3 km line ...
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NewsG&W agrees to buy Freightliner Group
INTERNATIONAL: US short line holding group Genesee & Wyoming Inc announced an agreement to buy approximately 95% of the shares of Freightliner Group from Arcapita and other shareholders on February 25. The acquisition is expected to close during the first quarter of 2015. G&W will pay £490m in cash ...
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NewsUnion Pacific announces $4·3bn capital programme
USA: Union Pacific Corp has announced a 2015 capital programme valued at $4·3bn, which it says is an increase of $200m on 2014. UP said the programme would be ‘driven primarily by equipment acquisitions and infrastructure investments’. Spending on Positive Train Control is expected to total $450m, up from ...
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NewsLIRR Grand Central Terminal contract awarded
USA: New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded the GCT Constructors joint venture of Schiavone Construction Co and John P Picone Inc a $404·8m contract to build the future Long Island Rail Road concourse at Grand Central Terminal. The work is part of the $10bn East Side Access project, which ...
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NewsUP Express selects Nomad wi-fi for 'seamless experience'
CANADA: Nomad Digital is to supply station and passenger wi-fi technology for the Union Pearson Express service, which will provide a direct link between Toronto’s main station and international airport when it launches this year. Announcing the contract on February 5, Nomad said it would offer a ‘best-in-class’ wi-fi service, ...
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NewsWabtec acquires Railroad Controls signalling business
USA: Wabtec Corp has acquired the Railroad Controls signalling construction services subsidiary of RCL Services Group with effect from February 4. Based in Benbrook, Texas, Railroad Controls was founded in 1994 and now has around 500 employees with revenues of $75m in 2014. Its capabilities include the installation of level ...
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NewsTransdev awarded Tri-Rail maintenance contract
USA: South Florida Regional Transportation Authority has awarded Transdev’s rail infrastructure maintenance business VTMI a $161m contract to inspect and maintain track, signals and bridges on the 115 km Tri-Rail commuter line linking Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. The contract runs for seven years from April 2015. There ...
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NewsHigh speed project cancelled as economy worsens
MEXICO: The federal government has decided to suspend ‘indefinitely’ the project to build a high speed line between Mexico City and Querétaro, Secretary of the Treasury & Public Finance Dr Luis Videgaray announced on January 30. The separate project to build a new railway for passenger and freight traffic between ...
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NewsNorfolk Southern announces closure of Roanoke office
USA: Norfolk Southern has announced that it is to close its Roanoke office building later this year, relocating the functions currently housed there to its operational headquarters in Atlanta and its corporate headquarters in Norfolk. NS said its aim is to ‘foster departmental synergies and to make better use of ...
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NewsRhomberg Sersa Rail Group takes over Sersa Total Track
CANADA: Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group has become the sole owner of Sersa Total Track Ltd after purchasing the remaining shares from Tim Mann. STT provides a range of track inspection, construction, maintenance and renewal services, with a fleet of heavy maintenance and construction equipment. It is based in Mallorytown, Ontario, ...
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NewsNew competition for Mexico City – Querétaro high speed line
MEXICO: Tendering for the project to build a 210 km high speed line between Mexico City and Querétaro began again on January 14 when the Secretariat of Communications & Transport published ‘pre-bidding documentation’ for a contract including civil works, railway systems and rolling stock. SCT is aiming to award the ...