Locomotive Spare Parts and Inventory

The Greenbrier Cos. on Tuesday announced it has dramatically reduced the size of its one-time $1.2 billion contract to produce railcars for General Electric Railcar Services Corp. But the deal also provides a boost to the Lake Oswego-based railcar maker’s (NYSE: GBX) growing refurbishment and parts business. Read more...

New Jersey Transit has approved spending more than $13 million for transportation projects in southern New Jersey. The agency has agreed to fund a study for a proposed extension of a light-rail line from Camden to Glassboro in Gloucester County. The agency's board voted Wednesday to provide up to $9 million for an environmental impact study. Read more...

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Locomotive engineers for Canadian National Railway are getting a small raise and work-rule change they did not bargain for, after talks between the two collapsed. CN said it gave the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference notice that the railroad was raising engineers’ pay 1.5 percent, and pushing them up to the higher monthly mileage cap requiring them to work as many hours as conductors during a month. Read more...

Railroad company CSX Transportation unveiled two locomotives Thursday at the Big Four Yards in Avon, touting the yard engines as at least 80 to 90 percent more environmentally clean than most other railroad locomotives in service. Advertisement And since they won't sit and idle for hours, the pair of new GenSet locomotives will be quieter and more friendly to neighboring homes and businesses, according to CSX and Avon officials. Read more...

It’s hard to ignore some of the projects going on in China. One of the more impressive is a $200b high-speed rail network. U.S. legislators have made noises about a high-speed rail plan of their own, but only $8b of a $787b package was earmarked for it. Read more...

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said Tuesday it will buy railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $44 billion. Berkshire (BRKA, Fortune 500), which already has major stake in the company, said it would acquire the remaining 77.4% of the company in a cash-and-stock offer worth $100 per share. Read more...

A day after Union Pacific Railroad announced it launched an expedited chemical service with Norfolk Southern Railway, the Class I said it formed a new expedited chemical service with CSX Transportation, Progressive Railroading reported. The joint UP-NS "RailChem Connect" service will target chemicals moving between Texas' Gulf Coast region and the Southeast, such as through Houston, southern Texas and Louisiana. Read more...