Smart sleepers could provide real-time data collection 22 Mar 2018 EUROPE: An agreement to co-operate to develop ‘smart’ sleepers containing real-time data collection sensors has been signed by Italian start-up company Greenrail and Spanish technology provider Indra. The companies are to work together to study the technical and economic viability of the concept, which would…
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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…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/21/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation FRA: PTC operating on 56 percent freight route miles FRA Administrator Ronald Batory Photo – fra.dot.gov Positive train control (PTC) systems are operating on about 56 percent of freight railroads' route miles that are required to be governed by PTC systems,…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/21/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Begeman officially becomes STB chair STB Chairwoman Ann Begeman Photo – stb.gov President Donald Trump has designated Ann Begeman as chair of the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the White House announced yesterday.Begeman, a Republican, is serving her second five-year term on…
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…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/20/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation STB seeks Class Is' response to rail service complaints The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is asking all Class Is to send the board their service outlooks for 2018.The request, which the board sent to all Class I executives last week, was…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 3/20/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation APTA leaders question Trump plan to cut funds for transit capital projects APTA President and CEO Paul Skoutelas Photo – APTA [Editor's note: This story was updated with new figures from APTA at 3:45 p.m. today.] President Donald Trump's proposed funding…
Shift2Rail launches fuel cell research 20 Mar 2018 EUROPE: Recognising growing interest around the world in the use of fuel cells and hydrogen as an alternative to railway electrification, the Shift2Rail joint undertaking announced on March 19 that it had decided to commission research into the technology. Noting that ‘electrifying the transport system is a…
Thameslink first with ATO over ETCS 20 Mar 2018 UK: Working with Network Rail and Siemens,commuter operator Govia Thameslink Railway has successfully operated its first passenger-carrying train using ATO over ETCS Level 2. On March 17 a southbound eight-car Thameslink train to Three Bridges operated automatically through the cross-city core between St Pancras, Farringdon, City…
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…