Rail News Home Mechanical 1/10/2019 Rail News: Mechanical NJ Transit contracts Bombardier to provide 113 commuter-rail cars NJ Transit has ordered 113 cars and retains an option to buy an additional 886 cars. Photo – Bombardier Transportation Bombardier Transportation yesterday announced it obtained a $669 million contract to supply 113 Multilevel III commuter-rail cars to…
Posts published in January 2019
Rail News Home Mechanical 1/18/2019 Rail News: Mechanical Rail supplier news from Progress Rail, Alstom, Steel Dynamics, TranSystems and the NRC (Jan. 18) Progress Rail recently delivered 10 locomotives to Tunisia. Photo – Tunisian National Railway Co. Progress Rail recently delivered the first 10 locomotives in a 20-unit order to the Tunisian National Railway Co.…
Rail News Home Mechanical 1/18/2019 Rail News: Mechanical Confidence in equipment leasing sector dipped in January, foundation says The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation released the results of its monthly confidence index, which showed overall confidence levels in the equipment finance market "eased further" this month. The January 2019 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment…
Rail News Home Mechanical 1/21/2019 Rail News: Mechanical Amtrak issues RFP for Amfleet I replacements The new units will replace Amtrak's fleet of 470 Amfleet I and ex-Metroliner cars. The Amfleet I units are over 40 years old, while Amtrak's fleet of ex-Metroliner equipment entered service 50 years ago this week. Photo – history.amtrak.com Amtrak…
Rail News Home Mechanical 1/21/2019 Rail News: Mechanical North Carolina DOT obtains federal, state grants for locomotive upgrades The Piedmont Corridor runs between Raleigh and Charlotte. Photo – NCDOT Rail Division The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) late last week announced a recently awarded federal grant that will help its rail division continue to…
Rail News Home Mechanical 1/21/2019 Rail News: Mechanical Amtrak issues RFP for Amfleet I replacements The new units will replace Amtrak's fleet of 470 Amfleet I and ex-Metroliner cars. The Amfleet I units are over 40 years old, while Amtrak's fleet of ex-Metroliner equipment entered service 50 years ago this week. Photo – history.amtrak.com Amtrak…
Rail News Home Mechanical 1/21/2019 Rail News: Mechanical North Carolina DOT obtains federal, state grants for locomotive upgrades The Piedmont Corridor runs between Raleigh and Charlotte. Photo – NCDOT Rail Division The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) late last week announced a recently awarded federal grant that will help its rail division continue to…
ITxPT standard helps Pilotfish enter the rail IT market 20 Jan 2019 NETHERLANDS: Swedish company Pilotfish is to work with German firm IVU Traffic Technologies to supply its vehicle gateway units and a back-office system for the 18 new Stadler WINK and 51 refurbished GTW diesel multiple-units which Arriva is to operate on regional routes…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 1/18/2019 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation House leader names transportation subcommittee ranking members House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-Mo.) yesterday announced the ranking members of the panel’s six subcommittees for the 116th Congress. The ranking members and their subcommittees will be Rep. Rick…
SNCF rolls out GIRO scheduling software 19 Jan 2019 FRANCE: SNCF is to deploy GIRO’s Hastus integrated scheduling and operations software to replace the existing tools which are used to manage staff and rolling stock on its network of high speed services. The software will cover around 380 trains, 5 000 drivers and onboard staff and…