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Canadian National Announces $315 Million Investment in Ontario Operations

Canadian National Railway has announced plans to invest approximately $315 million in its operations across Ontario. The funds are part of t…

Canadian National Announces $40 Million Investment in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

Canadian National Railway has announced plans to invest $30 million in its New Brunswick operations in 2018. The investments, part of CN’s 2…

CSX Solicits Bids for 6 Segments of its Lines in the United States and Canada

CSX Corporation Ltd is soliciting bids from contractors for the operation of six new rail segments in New York, Kentucky, North Carolina, We…

Canadian Pacific Invests in New High-Capacity Hopper Cars for its Grain Trains

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd (CP) has 1000 announced high-capacity grain hopper cars from National Steel Car. The total capacity for grain i…

Texas: GE Reveals First Evolution Series Locomotive for Canadian National

The first of the 200 new Evolution Series locomotives for Canadian National (CN) by GE Transportation was completed at the manufacturer’s pl…

Canadian National to Invest $340 Million in its Operations Across British Columbia in 2018

Canadian National (CN) has announced plans to invest approximately $340 million in its infrastructure across British Columbia. The plans are…

Railway Association of Canada: Legalisation of Marijuana Endangers Workplace Safety

The Acting President of the Railway Association of Canada has told a Senate Committee that the legalisation of marijuana in 2018 will endang…

Thales Secures Computer-Based Interlocking Systems Contract in Montreal

The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) has recently awarded Thales a contract to provide new computer-based interlocking systems across …

Canada's TransLink Accelerates Delivery of New SkyTrain Cars

TransLink, along with its provincial and federal partners, are accelerating the purchase of 28 additional SkyTrain cars on the Expo and Mill…

Toronto Subway Extension Officially Opens to Public

The Toronto subway extension’s opening was preceded by a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday 15, with Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) Chair…

Toronto Transit Commission Begins Testing Service on Line 1 Extension

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has entered the final stages of testing on the Line 1 extension with the beginning of so-called 'ghost …

Tallysman® Announces Low Profile Rail Antenna

Tallysman, a leading manufacturer of economical high performance antennas and related products, is pleased to announce the availability of t…

Alstom Secures Ottawa Light Rail Vehicle Contract

Alstom has been awarded a contract worth close to €200 million by Rideau Transit Group (RTG) to supply 38 Citadis Spirit light rail vehicles…

International Level Crossing Awareness Day to Take Place in Montreal

Level crossing deaths are tragic and often also lead to a huge amount of material damage. The 9th International Level Crossing Awareness Day…

Metrolinx Orders Citadis Spirit LRVs for Toronto

Alstom has been awarded a firm order for the supply of 61 Citadis Spirit light rail vehicles for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area...

Canada: TSB Calls for Strategies to Reduce Severity of Dangerous Goods Derailments

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is issuing a recommendation to develop strategies to reduce the severity of derailments invo…

28 Additional Light Metro Cars to be Built for Vancouver SkyTrain

TransLink has exercised options for the purchase of 28 additional BOMBARDIER INNOVIA Metro 300 vehicles for service on the Vancouver SkyTrai…

Bombardier Wins Montréal Fleet Operations and Maintenance Contract

Rail technology leader Bombardier Transportation announced that it has been awarded an eight-year contract by Montreal’s Agence Métropolitai…

Toronto Orders 125 Bombardier BiLevel Commuter Rail Cars

Bombardier Transportation have announced that Metrolinx will purchase an additional 125 Bombardier BiLevel Commuter Rail cars.

VIA Rail Infrastructure Funding Announced

The Canadian Government has announced a VIA Rail infrastructure funding package to improve services in the Windsor-Quebec City rail corridor…

VIA Rail Canada Announce Intermodal Ticket Sales

VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) and Maritime Bus have announced that their partnership will be enhanced to encompass an intermodal ticket sale ag…

Thales Canada and Ontario Partnership Announced

Thales Canada are partnering with Ontario to create cutting-edge signalling systems. Ontario will contribute $12 million via the Jobs and Pr…

NEM Solutions Empowering the TTC with New A.U.R.A Wheel Based WILD Equipments

Canada: Bombardier-Alstom Consortium AZUR Metro Cars in Service