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2/5/2010
Rail News: Passenger Rail
Updates from Bombardier, SKF, Kelso Technologies, Thales and HNTB Corp.
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• A Bombardier Transportation/Vossloh Kiepe consortium received a $63 million order from Berlin, Germany’s Kassel Transport Authority for 18 low-floor trams. The vehicles will be manufactured at Bombardier’s Bautzen, Germany, plant and delivered between November 2011 and February 2013. Also, in a consortium with China Railway Signal & Communication Corp., Bombardier obtained a $57 million order from the Pakistan Railways for a mainline signaling system on a double-track portion of the Karachi-Lahore line — Bombardier’s first signaling contract in Pakistan. Bombardier will be responsible for the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of the system.
• SKF obtained an order from the Indian Railways for seals used to refurbish tapered bearings on freight cars. SKF will produce the seals at a plant in Bangalore, India. The contract represents the Indian Railways’ largest-ever seal order.
• Kelso Technologies Inc. received Association of American Railroads approval for a field service trial of its pressure-relief valve series for high-pressure tank cars. More than 30,000 high-pressure tank cars are in service and new tank-car construction is expected to be “significant over the next 10 years,” Kelso officials said in a prepared statement.
• Thales announced that Chile’s Santiago Metro opened extensions to metro lines 1 and 5, which feature electronic interlocking, supervision and traffic-control systems supplied and installed by Thales. The extended lines include a total of 15 stations and are expected to accommodate 380,000 riders daily.
• HNTB Corp. named Hugh Fuller northwest railway practice leader. He will be responsible for rail projects in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and western Canada. Most recently a chief engineer in CH2M Hill’s transportation business group, Fuller has more than 30 years of experience in transportation and railway engineering, and has managed more than one dozen light- and commuter-rail, and streetcar projects.
• SKF obtained an order from the Indian Railways for seals used to refurbish tapered bearings on freight cars. SKF will produce the seals at a plant in Bangalore, India. The contract represents the Indian Railways’ largest-ever seal order.
• Kelso Technologies Inc. received Association of American Railroads approval for a field service trial of its pressure-relief valve series for high-pressure tank cars. More than 30,000 high-pressure tank cars are in service and new tank-car construction is expected to be “significant over the next 10 years,” Kelso officials said in a prepared statement.
• Thales announced that Chile’s Santiago Metro opened extensions to metro lines 1 and 5, which feature electronic interlocking, supervision and traffic-control systems supplied and installed by Thales. The extended lines include a total of 15 stations and are expected to accommodate 380,000 riders daily.
• HNTB Corp. named Hugh Fuller northwest railway practice leader. He will be responsible for rail projects in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and western Canada. Most recently a chief engineer in CH2M Hill’s transportation business group, Fuller has more than 30 years of experience in transportation and railway engineering, and has managed more than one dozen light- and commuter-rail, and streetcar projects.
