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• Completing two contracts signed in 2008, Bombardier Transportation will supply 65 bi-directional FLEXITY Outlook trams to the Brussels Transport Co. The contracts' value: $235 million. The trams, which will be equipped with BOMBARDIER MITRAC propulsion and control systems, will be manufactured at Bombardier's Bruges, Belgium, plant; the bogies will be produced in Siegen, Germany. Delivery of the low-floor trams is scheduled between January 2013 and April 2015.

• Comet Electronics L.L.C., a subsidiary of Comet Industries, has acquired the RailNet™ automatic equipment identification (AEI) product line of Science Application International Corp. Terms weren't disclosed. All Comet Communications & Signal Inc. products and services related to AEI and communications have been transferred to Comet Electronics, according to a prepared statement.

• Con-way Multimodal, a division of Con-way Inc.'s operating unit Menlo Worldwide Logistics, appointed C. Thomas Barnes president and Greg Orr, vice president of operations. Barnes joined Menlo Worldwide in 2000 as transportation project manager, later serving as senior logistics manager and in other operational and "account-facing" roles prior to his most recent position as director of transportation procurement, according to a prepared statement. Orr most recently served as vice president and general manager at Con-way Multimodal's Portland, Ore., operation.

• Transportation Certification Services Inc. (TCS) will sponsor a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) training seminar in Overland Park, Kan., on Nov. 16. Topics include drug and alcohol program manager training ("Signs and Symptom, Post Accident"), engineer certification and what the FRA finds during 240 audits, and the functions of the Locomotive Engineer Review Board. There is no charge to attend. For more information, check out TCS' website: www.tcsrailservices.com.

• Norfolk Southern Railway is using Spectrum Infrared's rail-car thaw shed heaters at a coal transfer facility in Lambert's Point, Va. Spectrum Infrared is a division of A.D.S.

• Qual-Tran Products signed an agreement with U.K.-based Rowe Hankins to make the latter's speed probes available to the transit industry in the United States and Canada.