SALT Lake City inaugurated the latest phase of its Trax light rail network on April 13, when a free preview service gave residents their first chance to travel on the 9.7km line to Salt Lake International Airport.
US national passenger rail operator Amtrak says ridership on its services continued to increase steadily in the first half of the 2013 financial year (October 2012 – March 2013), despite the disruption to the network in the northeast caused by Hurricane Sandy last October.
A new study for New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has concluded that extending the 7 Subway beneath the Hudson River from Manhattan to New Jersey is viable, less than a year after the project was dismissed by the then MTA chairman Mr Joe Lhota.
THE PCM Group, India, has acquired Rail.One, Germany, bringing to an end the latter's search for a strategic investor.
THE Greenbrier Companies, United States, secured orders worth a cumulative $US 575m for 5400 freight wagons of various types in January, February and March this year.
THE United States Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has selected the Illinois Department of Transportation (Idot) to lead the multi-state procurement of at least 35 200km/h diesel locomotives for passenger operations, Illinois governor Mr Pat Quinn announced on March 21.
THE United States House of Representatives approved the 2013 Financial Year Budget Bill on March 21, which will maintain Amtrak's budget for the remainder of the 2013 financial year at slightly below current levels despite the threat of cuts.
BOMBARDIER has appointed Mr Lutz Bertling as president and chief operating officer of Bombardier Transportation with effect from June 3. Bertling succeeds Mr André Navarri who will continue as strategic advisor to Bertling until he retires on June 1 2014.
GERMAN concrete-sleeper manufacturer Rail.One is to construct a plant in Iowa, United States, at a cost of €15m. The factory is expected to be commissioned by the end of the year and will have an annual capacity of 600,000 sleepers.
THE United States Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) are awarding New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) $US 193m in Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
