CANADIAN National says it will add more than 2200 new wagons to its fleet this year, as well as 1300 new containers, as part of a drive to support traffic growth.
Amtrak's revised vision for the Northeast Corridor calls for bold investments of $US 110bn to improve existing infrastructure and to construct a new dedicated high-speed line over the next 30 years. Kevin Smith examines the plans for North America's most important passenger railway.
THE city that launched the US light rail revolution in 1981 will extend its Green Line on September 2 from the Old Town Transit Center to the 12th and Imperial Transit Center.
A GROUNDBREAKING ceremony was held at the site of the future Roosevelt station in Seattle on August 17 to mark the start of construction on Sound Transit's Northgate Link 6.9km light rail extension from Husky Stadium to Northgate.
A performance-based track geometry system incorporating trained neural networks has been developed by TTCI. It is already being used by four railways and is now being tested on the Dallas light rail network, as senior engineer Charity Duran Ketchum explains.
WABTEC subsidiary MotivePower has been awarded a $US45m contract by Toronto transit authority Metrolinx to re-engine 11 of its MP40PH-3C locomotives, which are used by Go Transit on commuter services.
HOUSTON's expanding MetroRail light rail network has received a $US 188 million funding boost from the Federal Transit Administration, as part of a Full Funding Grant Agreement for the construction of two new lines.
SACRAMENTO Regional Transit District (RT) has appointed Siemens to refurbish 21 high-floor trams, which have been in storage since they were acquired from Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in 2003.
GENESEE & Wyoming and a new subsidiary, KeRail, have signed a contract with Tata Steel Minerals Canada to transport 3.8 million tonnes of iron-ore per year from a new mine near Schefferville, Quebec.
DALLAS Area Rapid Transit (Dart) celebrated the completion of the first phase of the 22.5km light rail Orange line on July 30, with the inauguration of the 7.2km section between Bachman and Irving.
