The 49th Street shop houses Metra's rail-car rehabilitation program. Photo – Julie Sneider Metra's board yesterday approved a $29.4 million contract to renovate and expand the mechanical shops that house its rail-car and locomotive rehab programs.The railroad awarded the contract to Chicago-based construction firm F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen & Associates LLC. The improvements are aimed…
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The company has wrapped up the first of 100 locomotive modernizations for Norfolk Southern Railway. Photo – GE Transportation GE Transportation has completed the first of 100 locomotive modernizations for Norfolk Southern Railway in 2018 and has received an order to modernize 80 Canadian Pacific locomotives this year, the manufacturer announced yesterday.In 2017, GE modernized…
Canadian Minister of Transport Marc Garneau (center) announced the funding yesterday. Photo – Transport Canada’s Twitter account The Canadian government will provide the funding to…
Built by Stadler, the unit was unloaded in Grapevine, Texas. Photo – Trinity Metro's Twitter account The Fort Worth Transportation Authority earlier this month took delivery of the second trainset for its TEXRail commuter-rail system.Built by Stadler, the unit was unloaded in Grapevine, according to a tweet from the agency, which has been rebranded as…
The agency may put the three-car trains into service as early as this spring. Photo – SFMTA's blog The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has begun testing three-car setups with its new Siemens-built light-rail units.The agency may put the three-car trains into service as early as this spring, SFMTA officials wrote in a blog."Most…
The Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad (STE) in California has received a grant from the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Central District (UAPCD) for the purchase of a new locomotive.Under the grant program, the UAPCD is providing cash incentives for the purchase of the environmentally friendly locomotive, according to OmniTRAX Inc., the railroad's parent.The…
The purchase is expected to enable FreightCar to "be more responsive to customer needs," said President and CEO Jim Meyer. Photo – freightcaramerica.net FreightCar America Inc. has agreed to purchase Navistar Inc.'s rail-car operations assets at its Shoals facility in Cherokee, Alabama. Since 2013, FreightCar has subleased a large portion of the Shoals facility. As…
Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (CSS) recently added rail-car storage opportunities for empty or loaded freight cars.The expanded storage space is the result of new investments in track capacity designed to help third-party and off-line customers with short- and long-term rail-car storage needs, CSS officials said in a press release."The need for railcar…
Kevin Desmond (at podium) made the announcement at a Feb. 23 press conference. Photo – TransLink's 'Buzzer' blog TransLink late last week announced plans to accelerate the delivery of 28 new SkyTrain cars for the Expo and Millennium lines.To be built by Bombardier, the units now are slated to arrive by the end of 2019,…
The locomotives previously were used on Amtrak's West Coast routes. Photo – Metra Metra's board yesterday approved the purchase of up to 21 used F59PHI locomotives for $1.3 million apiece. Built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) in 1998, the units will enable the railroad to quickly supplement its locomotive fleet and continue a longer-term…