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• The Greenbrier Cos. has received orders for more than 1,000 new double-stack intermodal platforms and more than 700 new covered hopper cars. In addition, Greenbrier will re-engineer and modify about 1,100 existing double-stack platforms to 53 feet from smaller dimensions. The value of the new orders and refurbishment work is about $130 million, according to the company. The work will be performed at Gunderson and Greenbrier Rail Services facilities in 2010 and 2011. The orders are from five separate undisclosed North American customers.

• RMI appointed Martin Paget vice president of the RailDOCS line of business. He previously was assistant vice president of engineering at Xorail, a signal engineering and railroad design subsidiary of Wabtec Corp.

• RailComm has been selected to provide a GCOR dispatch system for Genesee and Wyoming Inc.’s 16 southern region railroads. RailComm’s Domain Operations Controller (DOC®) train control system will be accessed through a web-enabled software-as-a-service delivery model.

• Vossloh Fastening Systems (China) Co. Ltd. won a contract from the Chinese Ministry of Railways to supply about 140 million high-speed rail fastener systems.  Delivery is expected to take place in 2011.

• AECOM recently hired Ruby Siegel as a senior member of its North America transportation planning services. With more than 30 years of management and planning experience in the transportation field, Siegel will assume business development and project manager responsibilities for AECOM’s transit and high-speed rail planning programs.