Recently added articles from Railway Track and Structures:
Fall transition.(ON TRACK)
Oct 01, 2009; Judge, Tom ... Fall is definitely a transition season. We're past the Dog Days of summer, but blissfully ahead of the icy blasts of approaching winter. It's time to enjoy the changing seasons, with mild temperatures, sunny days and hints of fall color spectaculars. Railroad m/w people are starting to ...
DART Green Line makes its debut in September.(INDUSTRY TODAY)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The next phase of DART Rail marks the return of rail service to Deep Ellum, Baylor, Fair Park and South Dallas, Texas, after an absence of more than 50 years and brings new opportunities for development and offered new destinations to thousands of new passengers when the first four ...
UP wins AREMA's Hay award for second year.(INDUSTRY TODAY)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The William W. Hay Award for Excellence presented at the AREMA 2009 Annual Conference went to Union Pacific, for the second year in a row, for its recovery efforts at the Frazier River Landslide near Oakridge, Ore. Bill Van Trump, UP's senior assistant vice president engineering, and other ...
CSXT's Mobile, Ala., swing bridge now being replaced.(INDUSTRY TODAY)
Oct 01, 2009; ... CSX Transportation awarded a $60-million contract to Scott Bridge Co. for the alteration of the 14-Mile Bridge over the Mobile River. The total project cost is estimated at $72 million, which includes the construction contract to the Scott Bridge Co. The project is being funded largely by ...
TriMet's MAX Green Line light rail now in operation.(INDUSTRY TODAY)
Oct 01, 2009; ... TriMet's MAX Green Line in Portland, Ore., opened to the public on Saturday, September 12, and reached a major milestone of connecting all three counties by light rail. TriMet's fifth MAX line extends from downtown Portland to Clackamas County. More than 40,000 trips were taken on the new ...
UP, officials "break ground" on Joliet, III., IM facility.(INDUSTRY TODAY)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Union Pacific's new Joliet, Ill, Intermodal Terminal will support customer growth by increasing the railroad's international and domestic container capacity and improving rail traffic efficiencies in Chicago, the nation's largest rail center. Once on line, customers from across Union ...
August crosstie report.(INDUSTRY TODAY)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Purchases of 1.8 million ties in August were virtually the same as August 2008. Production of 1.7 million ties in August was down very slightly from August 2008. Inventories increased by about three million ties ....
ArcelorMittal Steelton.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... ArcelorMittal Steelton is providing stimulus-funded 100-pound rail over ...
Balfour Beatty.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Balfour beatty has agreed to acquire U.S. consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff for approximately $618 million ....
B.H.I.T., Inc.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... B.H.I.T., Inc., has acquired 100 percent of the equity securities of The Wood Energy Group, one of the ...
Boatright Enterprises Inc.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Boatright Enterprises Inc. is finalizing a deal to ...
Caterpillar Inc. and Navistar International Corp.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Caterpillar Inc. and Navistar International Corp. closed a joint venture transaction in a new company, [NC.sup.2] Global LLC, to serve the global commercial truck ...
eVERIFILE.com Inc.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Atlanta-based eVERIFILE.COM Inc. has launched e-RAILSAFE Canada, the latest in the company's line of e-RAILSAFE branded services. The new service was designed ...
L.B. Foster Co.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... L.B. Foster Co. has been awarded a $3.9-million transit rail products stimulus-funded contract for SEPTA's Fern Rock Yard Track Renewal Project. RailWorks Track Systems is replacing track and contact rail installations that date from 1928 with ...
Magdalene.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Magdalene has signed a contract with Eurotunnel Group to design, model, pilot and supply a ...
Parsons Brinckerhoff.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The Chicago Transit Authority has awarded a construction management contract to Parsons Brinckerhoff for a rail replacement and tunnel rehabilitation project on the system's Blue Line, which connects the downtown business district ...
Quixote Corp.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Quixote Corp., a leading manufacturer of transportation safety ...
RailComm.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... RailComm'S Domain Operations Controller train control system has been selected to replace the existing Centralized Traffic Control office system for Denver Regional Transportation District' Central Corridor. Also, TriMet's Washington County, Ore., ...
Rail Safety Consulting, LLC.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Rail Safety Consulting, LLC, has received corporate accreditation from Network Rail of the United Kingdom for providing independent safety ...
Rosenqvist rail AB.(SUPPLIER NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Rosenqvist Rail AB of Sweden, recently acquired by the Pandrol Group, has appointed its ...
