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• Yesterday, Bombardier Transportation delivered the first of four BOMBARDIER IORE double-section heavy-haul locomotives to Malmtrafik i Kiruna AB (MTAB) in Kiruna, Sweden. The locomotive is part of the second batch of untis MTAB ordered in 2007. A subsidiary of Swedish mining company LKAB, MTAB transports iron ore from Kiruna and Mamberget to ports in Lulea and Narvik, Norway.

• The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) recently selected HDR to complete an environmental assessment and preliminary engineering for extensions of the New Orleans streetcar network into the city’s central business district and neighborhoods surrounding the French Quarter. The work is slated to be completed in summer. HDR, which previously conducted the alternatives analysis identifying streetcar investments for these areas, as well as the related conceptual engineering, also is helping RTA apply for federal funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s TIGER Discretionary Grant Program, New Starts/Small Starts and the Urban Circulator program.

• Balfour Beatty Rail Inc. recently took delivery of Amberg Technologies AG’s GRP Track Measurement System. Balfour Beatty is using the trolley-based system, along with Amberg’s Rail Slabtrack software, during the Phase I construction of the Mid-City/Exposition Light Rail project in Los Angeles. The system was purchased from Kara Co., Swiss-based Amberg’s North American distribution partner.

• RailComm was selected to provide a shove track detection and indication system to complement the supplier’s Domain Operations Controller (DOC®) System at CSX Transportation’s Erwin Terminal in Tennessee. The system provides remote indication of the shove track status, enabling the train operator to know when the train has reached the shove zone’s detection limits.

• Earlier this month, Loram Maintenance of Way Inc.’s upgraded and expanded Minneapolis headquarters was certified LEED-NCv2.2 Silver by the U.S. Green Building Council.  An internationally recognized green building certification system, the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program provides third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across a range of metrics, including energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction and improved indoor environmental quality.