SIEMENS-SINARA joint venture Ural Locomotives celebrated the sixth anniversary of its plant at Verkhnyaya Pyshma near Yekaterinburg on July 1 with the rollout of the 600th class 82 2ES6 double-unit freight locomotive for Russian Railways (RZD).
Over 700 employees attended a ceremony to mark the rollout of the 1000th locomotive from GE Manufacturing Solutions' plant in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 7, three-and-a-half years after the start of production at the facility.
AUSTRALIAN locomotive manufacturer and maintenance provider UGL has announced it will supply three 1067mm-gauge PH37 PowerHaul locomotives to Pacific National (PN), the first order for the type from an Australian customer.
EUROPEAN locomotive leasing company Akiem has secured a €125m loan from HSH Nordbank, Germany, which is participating as a mandated lead arranger in providing refinancing for Akiem.
BOMBARDIER formally handed over the first Traxx AC Last Mile locomotive for Austrian rail freight operator LTE at a ceremony in Graz on June 27.
CZ Loko, Czech Republic unveiled its prototype EffiLiner 3000 electric locomotive at the Czech Raildays exhibition in Ostrava on June 14.
LOCOMOTIVE leasing company Akiem have signed a framework agreement with Bombardier Transportation for 52 Bombardier Traxx AC and MS electric locomotives, with an initial firm order for 26 units worth €95m.
THE first two Siemens SC-44 Charger diesel passenger locomotives have arrived in Colorado for the start of testing at TTCI's Pueblo facility.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD), Gazprom, Transmashholding (TMH) and Sinara signed an agreement on June 17 at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum aimed at increasing the use of natural gas as a fuel for rail transport.
THE government of Cuba signed a €190m loan agreement with the Export Insurance Agency of Russia (Exiar) during last-week's St Petersburg International Economic Forum, which will be used by Cuban Union Railways (UFC) to finance the modernisation of its locomotive fleet.
