MRS Logistics will take delivery in August of the first of seven rack locomotives being built by Stadler in Switzerland under a Reais 120m ($US 7.6m) contract.

The first 4.1MW diesel freight locomotive jointly designed by Indian Railways' Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) in Varanasi, EMD, and India's Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO) will be completed soon.

LOCOMOTIVE components and freight wagons are to be manufactured in India through a joint venture between UGL, Australia, and Texmaco Rail & Engineering using the latter's facility in Kolkata.

With Cetest, Spain, carrying out tests on Oaris, CAF's first high-speed train, Igor Alonso Portillo, Cetest's director of strategy and business development, explains the testing procedures required for the latest high-speed train technologies.

CAF has secured a Riyals 553m ($US 147.5m) contract with Saudi Railways Company (SAR) to supply five push-pull diesel passenger trains for the North-South Railway.

Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) has secured an $US 83.1m loan guarantee from the Export-Import Bank of the United States to purchase six EMD locomotives built in the United States,