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Class I Railroads Target Full Positive Train Control Implementation
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 5:41pm | 520Read More...One hundred percent of the tracks owned by the U.S. operations of the Class I railroads have completed the advanced field testing of positive train control (PTC), a federally mandated safety technology that must be implemented on all Class I railroads, Amtrak and certain commuter rail lines by...
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Japanese Railmaker Lands Big Metra Railcar Order
Friday, September 24, 2010 - 2:50pm | 106Read More...Nippon Sharyo, a Japanese (NYSE: EWJ) rail car maker, said that it had received an order for 160 rail cars from suburban Illinois' Metra commuter rail line on Thursday. The order, jointly received with trading house Sumitomo Corp, is worth about ¥48 billion, or roughly $570 million. The new cars...
