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• R.J. Corman Railpower Locomotives has obtained a contract to provide an RP14BD GenSet switcher to the Alabama State Port Authority's Terminal Railway. Scheduled for delivery later this year, the RP14BD GenSet meets U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) locomotive emission regulations for 2012 under Tier 3, according to a R.J. Corman press release. The project calls for repowering the Terminal Railway's 1980 GM EMD MP-15 switching locomotive. The project is funded, in part, by an EPA grant through funding authorized under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2010.

• Bombardier presented its suppliers SKF and General Electric Co. with the Bombardier Transportation Sustainability Awards, which recognize suppliers' accomplishments in sustainable development. Bombardier honored SKF for its excellence in integrating corporate social responsibility in business principles and in management standards. GE received the award for its reporting transparency and credibility in the GE Citizenship Report.

• Atkins has named Jonathan McDonald vice president and senior practice manager for the company’s transit and rail practice. He has 20 years of related experience. McDonald has led systems development for some of the world’s largest and most advanced rail projects, including the California high-speed rail project, Hong Kong’s $10 billion mixed freight/passenger West Rail Line, multiple Bay Area Rapid Transit extensions with automated train operation, and Seattle’s Central Link light-rail system with mixed bus/rail tunnel operation, according to a press release.

• Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed Lillian Hames assistant deputy program director on the firm’s program management team for the California High-Speed Rail Authority. She will coordinate the program management responsibilities for the high-speed rail system, and will address station-area planning, visual and aesthetic rail design criteria, transit connectivity and joint development. Hames is a senior rail transit executive with more than 25 years of experience as a leader and project director of large, complex transportation programs. She most recently served as special projects coordinator at Bay Area Rapid Transit.

• Parsons Brinckerhoff has announced that William Kennedy, vice president and senior engineering manager, and an internationally recognized expert on tunnel ventilation, died June 23. He was 69. He was instrumental in developing tunnel ventilation systems for road and rail tunnels worldwide, Parsons Brinckerhoff officials said in a prepared statement. He spent 46 years with the firm, where he was part of a joint venture team of Parsons Brinckerhoff, DeLeuw, Cather & Co., and Kaiser Engineers, that developed the Subway Environmental Design Handbook under contract with the U.S. Department of Transportation in the 1970s. Recently, Kennedy contributed to the development of ventilation systems for projects such as the extension of the No. 7 subway in New York City, the Purple Line subway in Los Angeles, the Delhi Metro in India, and rail and road tunnels in Istanbul.