Railway Track & Structures - February 2008 - (Page 7) SUPPLIER NEWS Association of American Railroads is offering the 2007 edition of Railroad The Facts and Railroad 10-Year Trends. More information is available at www.aar.org. Hirschmann Automation and Control, Inc., recently celebrated the inauguration of its new facility in Chambersburg , Pa. Boston’s MBTA contracted with InSite WireBentley Systems, Inc., has acquired less, LLC, to design, build and operate a Hevacomp, Ltd., a Sheffield, England-based provider of building-services software dedicated to improving the performance of buildings. wireless infrastructure solution that allows multiple licensed cellular providers to deliver wireless voice and data services to T riders. cluding blue strobe lights to indicate derail status. Also, RailComm was selected to provide the centralized traffic control system for Commonwealth Railway in Virginia. In addition, RailComm provided a wireless-remote-control derail system for the CSX Transportation Willard Car Shop in Ohio. The 2008 Railroad Environmental Conference, which will be held November 4-6 at the Bombardier Transportation signed a contract valued at approximately 32 million euros ($46 million U.S.) with BAA Ltd. to replace the existing inter-terminal transit system at London Gatwick Airport in the United Kingdom. Bombardier's Pittsburgh, USA, facility will be responsible for the design and supply of the driverless vehicles, automatic train control, communications and power distribution systems, station platform doors, as well as project management, systems engineering and integration and test and commissioning for the 1.2-km (0.8-mile) dual-lane system scheduled for completion in spring 2010. will equip most of its new core, mining and industrial machines in the U.S. and Canadian markets with EquipmentManager and ProductLink, its remote tracking and asset management systems. The Florida East Coast is the first railroad to electronically deliver the majority of its Track & Time authorities with DigiCon® eAX™ (Electronic Authority Exchange) technology. Intelligent Perimeter Systems installed a new crossing warning system in Michigan that features retractable three-foothigh reflective posts housed in self-contained cartridges that electrically deploy at the crossing as a train approaches. The test project is funded by the Michigan DOT and the Federal Railroad Administration. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is seeking papers on any railroad environmental or energy topic. Abstracts, which must be received by March 15, 2008, should be e-mailed as a Microsoft Word file to hagemann@uiuc.edu. Stantec acquired Rochester Signal Inc., a signal design and program management firm based in Rochester, N.Y., specializing in railway systems. Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc., successfully integrated a hydraulic crane and air compressor into the new Dodge Ram 3500, 4500 and 5500 chassis, as well as the Sterling Bullet chassis. The City and County of Honolulu, Department of Transportation Services, awarded a contract to PB for engineering services for the development of a high-capacity transit project. The project will study how to improve the ability of people to move in the highly-congested east-west corridor between Kapolei and the University of Hawaii in Manoa. Stella-Jones Inc. entered into a letter of intent to acquire Burke-Parsons-Bowlby Corp. for approximately $33 million. The acquisition is expected to be structured as a merger between a U.S.-based, wholly-owned subsidiary of Stella-Jones and BPB. Unitrac Railroad Materials, Inc., has a newly-designed Website at www.unitracrail.com Vossloh Fastening Systems America Corp. notes that BNSF is transitioning to Vossloh, with the plan for this year that all curves over two degrees on new construction will be installed with Vossloh and all P811 operations this year will be Vossloh, both tangent and curved track, amounting to 21,000 fasteners. Caterpillar RailComm, Inc., has been selected to provide a solar-powered wireless-remote-control derail system for Alcoa’s facility in Louisville, Ken., in- www.rtands.com Railway Track & Structures February 2008 7 http://www.hirschmann.com http://www.aar.org http://www.aar.org http://www.hirschmann.com http://www.insitewireless.com http://www.bentley.com/hevacomp http://www.insitewireless.com http://cee.uiuc.edu/railroad/RREC/callforpapers.asp http://cee.uiuc.edu/railroad/RREC/callforpapers.asp http://www.ibarrier.com http://www.bombardier.com http://www.stantec.com http://www.imt.com http://www.stella-jones.com http://www.cat.com http://www.unitracrail.com http://www.pbworld.com http://www.unitracrail.com http://www.vossloh.com/cms/en/home/home.jsp http://www.vossloh.com/cms/en/home/home.jsp http://www.railcomm.com http://www.digiconinc.com http://www.rtands.com
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