Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 2/5/2019 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation NTSB updates list of most wanted safety improvements Six safety recommendations are repeated from the 2017-18 most wanted list. Photo – Source: NTSB The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday unveiled its 2019-20 list of most wanted transportation safety improvements.Launched in…
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Grants to support low-carbon technology demonstrators 05 Feb 2019 UK: The Department for Transport has awarded grants of around £350 000 to each of five projects which aim to develop technology to reduce the rail network’s carbon footprint. The projects were selected under the second round of the DfT’s First of a Kind competition, run by…
Saudi Railway Co to deploy track monitoring system 05 Feb 2019 SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Railway Co has awarded Perpetuum a two-year contract to provide its vibration-based track condition monitoring system for use on the 1 242 km north–south route between Al-Qurrayat and Riyadh. Announcing its first contract win in the Middle East on February 5, Perpetuum said…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 2/4/2019 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation STB installs Fuchs as vice chairman for 2019 Patrick Fuchs Photo – Patrick Fuchs' LinkedIn page The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has designated Patrick Fuchs as vice chairman. The vice chairmanship rotates among board members each year.Fuchs was sworn in last…
3D printed components to be tested on passenger trains 03 Feb 2019 3D PRINTING: Rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains, engineering consultancy ESG Rail and 3D printing technology company Stratasys have collaborated to use additive manufacturing to produce four train interior components meeting the standards required for use on UK rolling stock. The components include…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 1/31/2019 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation ASLRRA holds fly-ins to build BRACE Act support in DC The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) held a fly-in yesterday in Washington, D.C., to garner congressional support for the Building Rail Access for Customers and the Economy (BRACE)…
Rail News Home Mechanical 1/30/2019 Rail News: Mechanical Rail supplier news from Ricardo, APM Terminals, Dover, Seyfarth Shaw, Hanson and AECOM (Jan. 30) A diesel multiple unit. Photo – Ricardo Ricardo won a contract from United Kingdom-based rolling stock owner Porterbrook to provide engineering expertise for the integration of MTU's hybrid powerpack into a converted…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 1/29/2019 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation NTSB: Accident investigation evidence may be lost due to shutdown Robert Sumwalt is chairman of the NTSB. Photo – ntsb.gov The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) resumed normal operations yesterday and began developing plans to address work that could not be…
Banedanmark settles with Alstom over ETCS delays 29 Jan 2019 DENMARK: Infrastructure manager Banedanmark has reached a settlement with Alstom over revisions to the 2012 contract to supply and install ETCS onboard equipment for the national Signalling Programme. Under the ambitious timescale approved in 2009, the installation of both lineside and onboard equipment had been…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 1/28/2019 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Short-line tax credit bill introduced in Senate A bill that would permanently extend the 45G short-line tax credit has been introduced in the Senate, the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) announced late last week.The lead sponsors of S.…