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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.
Read More →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.
Read More →Some ideas discussed include locating a full-scale facility where passenger railcars could be designed, manufactured, and tested.
Read More →The Senate prohibition only applies to rolling stock (rail cars and buses), not any other kind of procurement.
Read More →Agency received only one response to its initial RFP for new bi-level gallery cars.
Read More →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.
Read More →The artists were selected from a juried registry based on their individual bodies of work that would suit the scale of light rail trains.
Read More →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.
Read More →Twenty railcars will be put back in service that had been waiting to have Positive Train Control equipment installed, with the agency also planning to lease another 20 railcars from the Marlyand Transit Administration.
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