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SUPPLIER NEWS Actuant Corporation has acquired Templeton, Kenly & Co., Inc., for approximately $48 million in cash. Andrew Corp. won a major upgrade contract for the Mass Transit Railway Corporation’s territory-wide radio network in Hong Kong. Bentley Systems, Inc., notes that the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority is reporting major time savings from its deployment of the Bentley Optram decision-support system for rail corridor maintenance planning and operations. Authority. ENSCO also won a multi-year contract to provide track inspection services to MARTA in Atlanta. With the sale of Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern to Canadian Pacific Railway, L.B. Foster Co. will receive an initial payment of approximately $151.5 million and further payments if and when the Powder River Basin extension is built. Foster plans to use the initial payment on its 21-year investment in DM&E to pay off $35 million in debt and make acquisitions to complement its rail and construction businesses. Also, Foster’s Allegheny Rail Products facility in Pueblo, Colo., has achieved ISO 9001:2000 Certification. Pelli/Hines to design the Transbay Transit Center and Tower in San Francisco. The TJPA Board has approved the recommendation. Alton & Southern continues to expand its existing Domain Operations Controller System from RailComm, Inc., by adding remote control functionality at the bowl end of its yard. Also, RailComm signed long-term service agreements with two Genessee & Wyoming railroads—Portland & Western and Illinois & Midland—that allows the railroads to access RailComm’s Domain Operations Controller System through a Web-enabled Software-as-aService delivery model. And RailComm has been selected to provide the centralized traffic control system for TriMet’s Washington County, Ore., Commuter Rail Project. Dialight Corporation has been awarded a $1.8-million contract to provide LED trackside signals for the New York City subway system. The contract calls for retrofitting 13,400 incandescent units with LED modules, thereby completing conversion of all the system’s more than 50,000 signals. MILESTONE® VM specialty herbicide from is now labeled and available for use in California. Global Rail Systems, Inc., acquired the Personal Traffic Master software system from Alstom Transport. Harsco Track Technologies Dow AgroSciences acquired ZETA-TECH Associates, Inc. Also, HTT received orders for grinding equipment totaling more than $12 million from Japan and Singapore. The Advanced Telecommunications Engineering laboratory at the University of NebraskaLincoln has been conducting a WiFi testing program for the railway industry and is recommending Strix Access/One® from Strix Systems for future deployments alongside railroad tracks. Encore Rail Systems recently delivered the first of 23 new RTP ride-on chemical tie pluggers to Union Pacific for use on the railroad’s rail and curve rail gangs. has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide track inspection services for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. received a framework contract from Network Rail for track switch and crossing design in the London NorthEast and London North-West territories. The Transbay Joint Powers Authority’s Design and Development Competition nine-member jury issued its final jury report unanimously recommending the team of Pelli Clarke Union Switch & Signal Inc. ENSCO has been awarded a project with Philadelphia’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority for the Kay Interlocking Re-Signaling Project that features a new five-track interlocking design and interfaces with the SEPTA West Interlocking to the east and the Amtrak Zoo Interlocking to the west. www.rtands.com Railway Track & Structures October 2007 7 http://www.actuant.com http://www.transbaycenter.org http://www.andrew.com http://www.lbfoster.com http://www.lbfoster.com http://www.railcomm.com http://www.bentley.com http://www.dialight.com http://www.globalrailsystems.com http://www.harsco.com http://www.strixsystems.com http://www.dowagro.com http://www.strixsystems.com http://www.jacobs.com http://www.switch.com http://www.encorers.com http://www.ensco.com http://www.transbaycenter.org http://www.rtands.com

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