
Proposals will be due in August and Metra hopes to finalize a deal by the end of the year for at least 200 new cars.
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Features crash-energy management, LCD monitors for customer information, and wireless train-to-wayside communications.
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Nippon Sharyo flew out a team of engineers to inspect the damage and order new parts to replace those that can’t be fixed.
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Plans to acquire at least 256 8000-series cars to allow for the retirement of the 2000- and 3000-series cars at the end of their 40-year service life.
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Some ideas discussed include locating a full-scale facility where passenger railcars could be designed, manufactured, and tested.
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The Senate prohibition only applies to rolling stock (rail cars and buses), not any other kind of procurement.
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Agency received only one response to its initial RFP for new bi-level gallery cars.
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The Acela Express refresh is a 14-month program for all of its 20 trainsets, which includes 100 Amtrak cars and 6,080 total seats.
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The artists were selected from a juried registry based on their individual bodies of work that would suit the scale of light rail trains.
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BART is in negotiations with a vendor to install Wi-Fi in the transit system’s 46 stations and aboard all of its 775 new cars, with hopes of having a deal by the summer, with Caltrain set to have Wi-Fi on its new trains by 2022.
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