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SUPPLIER NEWS Amerex Group, Inc., a provider of green solutions to clean up and protect the environment, has executed an agreement to acquire XInterchange Corp., a provider of transportation and industrial consulting services with particular expertise in railroad transportation. passing trains for the presence of unauthorized riders or illegal cargo. has provided its new Model CWL-7 Crossing Warning System to Ameren Energy to provide grade-crossing protection at an Illinois plant. Global Rail had four of its FAS-PAS Systems installed to automate two passing sidings on the Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad, a subsidiary of RailAmerica, and two more to automate a siding on Wheeling and Lake Erie. CSX Transportation completed the installation and commissioning of Global Rail’s Modular Yard Automation System for its Mobile, Ala., yard. The system is a wireless switch-control system with a programmable touch-screen local control panel with the TrackMaster program for entrance/exit routing and stacked routing capability. ree temperature or rail neutral temperature. Global Rail Systems Amphenol® recently put online a dedicated railway Website at www.amphenol-railway.com that enables users to find the right connectors on the basis of the corresponding applications. J.L. Patterson & Associates, Inc., a civil, trackwork and structural engineering firm, received a three-year contract from the Southern California Regional Rail Authority to provide on-call professional engineering design services for the entire Metrolink Commuter Rail System. JLP was one of three firms awarded contracts with a combined funding authorization of $7.5 million for the contract term. RailComm, Inc., has delivered and installed a solar-powered wireless remote-control derail system for Alcoa’s Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil factory in Louisville, Ken. In addition, RailComm will provide a wireless remote-control derail system for BNSF’s Pasco Yard in Washington State and automation and wireless remote control of multiple switch locations within BNSF’s Murray Yard in East Kansas City, Mo. The Charlotte, N.C., City Council approved a contract of up to $30 million for planning, environmental and engineering services with STV/Ralph Whitehead Associates to study the benefits and begin design of an extension to its LYNX Blue Line light rail project. Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc., was recognized by the Associated General Contractors of America with the Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Award for successful collaboration with client Sound Transit on the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel light rail retrofit project in Seattle, Wash. is involved in a one-year project to install a network of 100 self-contained solar-power systems to light public spaces in Kelowna, B.C., Canada, including parks, pedestrian and bike trails, accent lighting and security and safety lighting. The government of Canada contributed $500,000 to the project. A leading rail carrier has awarded a contract to Duos Technologies, Inc., to secure a key rail yard in the western United States. Also, a Class 1 railroad awarded Duos a contract for the installation of the company’s proprietary Train Rider Detection System, which uses artificial intelligence to automatically inspect Carmanah Technologies Corp. Hatch Mott MacDonald acquired Railroad Technology, Inc., a railroad and transit specialty firm located in Sacramento, Calif. JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corp. company, has rebranded its offering of services under a single name, Ground Support™, including JLG’s parts, training, used equipment sales, reconditioning, repair and maintenance services, financing and technical support services. Network Rail, the UK’s railway infrastructure owner and manager, is working with MAPS Technology Ltd. to develop the MAPS-SFT product to support the management of stress- Unitrac Railroad Materials, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Healey Railroad Corp. and a specialty trackwork manufacturer and distributor of new and relay rail, has acquired Donovan EDH and Trackwork Solutions, based in Danvers, Ill. www.rtands.com Railway Track & Structures April 2008 7 http://www.amerexcos.com http://www.jlpatterson.com http://www.globalrailsystems.com http://www.amphenol-railway.com http://www.amphenol-railway.com http://www.railcomm.com http://www.bbinfrastructureinc.com http://hatchmott.com http://www.carmanah.com http://www.jlg.com http://www.stvinc.com http://www.unitracrail.com http://www.duostech.com http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/ http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/ http://www.rtands.com

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