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• Wabtec Corp.'s Wabtec Rail subsidiary won a $52 million, three-year contract to refurbish 308 electric transit cars for HSBC Rail, which leases rail equipment in the United Kingdom. Wabtec Rail will overhaul Class 321 cars that operate between London and the U.K.'s East Anglia Region. In 2006, Wabtec Rail obtained a 10-year, $140 million contract from HSBC Rail to overhaul transit vehicle bogies, and last year won a $40 million contract from the lessor to maintain high-speed locomotives.

• Cattron Group International Inc. has appointed James Robertson executive director-business development. He will report to President and Chief Executive Officer John Paul. Robertson has more than 30 years of experience in the remote control industry and most recently managed Cattron's material handling sales. Cattron provides remote-control products and professional services for the railroad, material handling, mining, commercial and mobile markets.

• The Seattle Tunnel and Rail Team, a joint venture between Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and CH2M Hill, obtained a construction management services contract from Sound Transit for the 3.2-mile University Link light-rail extension. To be completed in 2016, the project calls for building two parallel tunnels north from downtown Seattle to the University of Washington, and constructing stations at Capitol Hill and the university campus near Husky Stadium.

• Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles S.A. (CAF) has won two train supply contracts in São Paulo, Brazil. The Spanish company obtained a contract from Compañía Paulista de Trenes Metropolitanos to provide 40 eight-car trains and a contract from São Paulo Metro to supply 17 six-car trains. CAF, which supplies railway system equipment and components worldwide, expects to complete deliveries for both contracts in 2010. The company also obtained a contract from the Saudi Railways Organization to supply eight train sets, each comprising one diesel-electric locomotive and five steel-body cars. This contract also calls for maintaining the units for four years.

• Cubic Transportation Systems Inc. obtained a contract from Miami-Dade Transit to replace a fare collection system with a smart-card system. The new system will be based on Cubic's contactless smart-card ticketing technology and software, most recently implemented by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Miami-Dade's system will handle full-feature smart cards used by Metrorail and Metrobus commuters, as well as occasional riders' limited-used cards.