Rail supplier news from PCL Construction, Vossloh and Steelpaint

PCL Construction Services Inc. has placed the final steel beam for Amtrak's new maintenance and inspection facility at King Street Yard in Seattle. When completed, the $300 million, 100,000-square-foot facility will feature two maintenance and inspection bays and a service and cleaning bay, according to Amtrak. The facility will support the next generation of passenger service, including Amtrak's new Airo trainsets, according to a PCL press release. Since PCL began construction in spring 2025, crews have installed1.8 million pounds of pre-engineered metal building steel. placed more than 12,500 cubic yards of concrete and logged more than 200,000 hours of work between PCL and contract crews. Facility construction will continue through 2026, PCL officials said.

Vossloh obtained an order from China for a new high-speed grinding train scheduled for delivery in summer 2027. Vossloh will build the HSG-2 train in Hamburg, Germany, according to a company press release. The train will be used to maintain China's more than 30,000-mile network of high-speed rail, which the country plans to expand to more than 43,500 miles by 2035, Vossloh officials said. The expansion is linked to the country's preventative maintenance program. Last year, China conducted preventative rail grinding on 26,000 miles of high-speed rail. Financial terms of the contract were not included in the press release.

Steelpaint, a German company specializing in polyurethane resin coatings, has acquired approval for the use of its Stelcatec moisture-cure polyurethane coating system on newly constructed steel rail infrastructure across the United Kingdom. SOCOTEC UK, an independent testing, inspection and certification provider, issued the approval for the UK National Rail, the group representing passenger-rail owners, operators, maintenance and development partners across England, Scotland and Wales. Stelcatec is a one-component coating designed for steel structures exposed to varying weather and humidity. The company filed for the approval so its coatings could be used on replacement steel during maintenance projects, as well as on new projects, they added.