THE governor of the US state of Connecticut Mr Dannel Malloy has confirmed that Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) will purchase 60 additional M-8 EMU cars from Kawasaki by 2019 to meet surging ridership demand on Metro North Railroad's New Haven Line.
IRJ at InnoTrans 2016: Progress Rail launched its EMD Uptime condition-based analytics platform for locomotives in Berlin on September 21.
IRJ at InnoTrans 2016: CANADIAN inter-city passenger operator Via Rail is moving forward with preparations to procure a new fleet of bi-mode (diesel and electric) trains as part of its $C 4bn plan to upgrade the Toronto – Ottawa – Montreal corridor.
THE US city of Charlotte has issued a call for tender for the construction of Phase 2 of its CityLynx light rail Gold Line, adding extensions totalling 4km at each end of the 2.4km Phase 1 which opened in mid-2015.
THE first of six Liberty LRVs being built by Brookville Equipment Corporation, United States, for Detroit’s first modern tram line arrived at the line’s Penske Technical Center depot on September 13, two months ahead of schedule.
THE San Diego Association of Governments (Sandag) has announced on September 14 that it secured a $US 1bn grant from the Federal Transit Administration for the 17.7km Mid-Coast LRT extension.
THE $US 148m Cincinnati Bell Connector tram line began carrying passengers on September 9, connecting The Banks to Over-the-Rhine, making 18 stops.
A consortium of Ineco, Spain, its Mexican subsidiary Inecomex, Spain’s infrastructure manager Adif, and Cal y Mayor y Asociados, Mexico, have been awarded a contract to supervise the construction of an extension to Line 12 of the Mexico City metro.
THE first of 10 diesel-electric locomotives being supplied to All Aboard Florida for its new Brightline inter-city service in Florida has completed initial track testing at the Siemens plant in Sacramento, California, and moved for the first time under its own power.
THE first of 300 Bombardier R179 cars ordered by New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the subway B Division was unloaded at 207th Street yard in Upper Manhattan on September 6.
