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• Alstom Transport was awarded a $194.2 million contract from the Delaware River Port Authority to overhaul PATCO’s entire fleet of 120 passenger cars. Alstom estimates it will take two years to develop prototype cars and another three years to complete rehabilitation work. Alstom also won contracts to provide electromechanical work, 57 metro cars, traction substations and a communications-based train control system for the first metro line in Panama; and supply 15 three-car Metropolis trainsets for the Santo Domingo metro’s line 2. The Santo Domingo contract also covers maintenance services and includes an option for six additional trains.

• Rail Safety Consulting L.L.C. (RSC) was awarded a contract from Metrolink to provide Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) safety compliance services for the agency’s positive train control system in Los Angeles. RSC will lead the development of required safety submittals in support of FRA certification.

• Quintiq obtained a multi-million-dollar software license from CN for the Quintiq Logistics Planner, a routing, scheduling and truck dispatch tool the Class I plans to begin deploying for intermodal operations in January. The software is designed to consolidate intermodal logistics management functions and integrate various logistics services.

• Harsco Corp. announced plans to assume a charge of $85 million to $90 million in the fourth quarter to “facilitate a major restructuring to optimize Harsco Infrastructure as a more streamlined, efficient, cost-effective, disciplined and market-focused global platform with a single business brand,” according to a press release. Effective with year-end financial reporting, the Harsco Metals and Harsco Minerals businesses will be reported as one segment, Harsco officials said. The company’s four reported segments will be Harsco Metals & Minerals, Harsco Infrastructure, Harsco Rail and Harsco Industrial.