GE has announced it is to expand its strategic partnership with Tülomsaş, which will see the Turkish manufacturer become the main supplier of PowerHaul diesel locomotives for Europe, Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa.
GERMANY's Federal Railway Authority (EBA) granted Siemens approval on December 21 for the operation of Vectron locomotives on the German mainline network.
SIEMENS handed over two 5.2MW Vectron 3kV dc electric locomotives to DB Schenker Rail Poland at a ceremony at the Polish Railway Institute on December 20.
THE board of Southern California commuter rail operator Metrolink has approved the purchase of 10 Tier 4-compliant locomotives from EMD, which it says will reduce locomotive emissions by 86%.
KYRGYZSTAN Railways' (KTZ) director general Mr Argyhbek Malabaev says that the railway is aiming to complete a final comprehensive feasibility study by the end of 2013 for a new cross-country electrified line that will open up the country to transit traffic between China, the Persian Gulf and Europe.
AN agreement has been signed in the Kazakhstan capital Astana by GE Transportation, the Remlokomotiv subsidiary of Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) and Transmashdiesel to set up a joint venture company to produce GE Evolution series engines.
PRESIDENT Nursaltan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan officially inaugurated a new locomotive manufacturing plant in Astana on December 4, in a ceremony attended by a host of national dignitaries including Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) president Mr Askar Mamin.
POLAND's largest open-access railfreight operator DB Schenker Rail Poland has awarded Siemens a contract to supply 23 3kV dc class 193 Vectron electric locomotives.
THE Export-Import Bank of the United States has signed a $US 425m credit agreement with Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) and its subsidiary Lokomotiv Kurastyru Zauyty (LKZ) to finance the supply of around 200 GE Evolution Series ES44ACi diesel locomotives.
EMD officially opened its new locomotive assembly plant at Sete Lagoas in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on November 29.