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Young people training for railroad careers will benefit from a $2 million federal grant. It was announced Thursday, Jan. 2, by the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission.
Amtrak operates a fleet of 2,142 railway cars and 425 locomotives for revenue runs and service, collectively called rolling stock.Notable examples include the GE Genesis and Siemens Charger diesel locomotives, the Siemens ACS-64 electric locomotive, the Amfleet series of single-level passenger cars, the Superliner series of double-decker passenger cars, and 20 Acela Express high-speed trainsets.
Montreal Locomotive Works – Montreal, Quebec – formerly part of American Locomotive Company, acquired by Bombardier Inc in 1975 but ended locomotive production 1985 Urban Transportation Development Corporation – Toronto, Ontario – former Crown corporation
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) is a labor union founded in Marshall, Michigan, on 8 May 1863 as the Brotherhood of the Footboard. It was the first permanent trade organization for railroad workers in the US. A year later it was renamed the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (B of LE).
Amtrak: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (PDF). Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. ISBN 0-8447-3369-5. OCLC 5777023. Sanders, Craig (2006). Amtrak in the Heartland. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34705-3. Solomon, Brian (2004). Amtrak. Saint Paul, Minnesota: MBI.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Brandon Bostian was obsessed with trains while growing up, talked about them constantly and wanted to be an engineer or a conductor. "He would go on vacation and bring back ...
This list includes companies operating both now and in the past. In some countries, the railway operating bodies are not companies, but are government departments or authorities. Particularly in many European countries beginning in the late-1980s, with privatizations and the separation of the track ownership and management from running the ...
The first of 577 Amtrak train cars that will be produced in Sacramento have been unveiled. ... The $4.9 billion Amtrak contract with Siemens Mobility Inc. is the largest in the company’s history ...