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• Harsco Corp.’s rail unit has obtained a four-year contract extension, worth $50 million, to provide railway track maintenance services to Network Rail in the United Kingdom. The award continues Harsco’s role as the exclusive contract services provider to Network Rail for railway switch grinding throughout the U.K., according to Harsco. The U.K. business represents Harsco Rail’s largest contract services program worldwide, the company said.

• RailComm and ERB Technologies have been chosen to supply a yard automation system at Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen South Mine in South Africa. The system features RailComm’s DOC® server-based central control system and four outdoor-rated control panels, as well as RailComm’s RADiANT™ data radios for communication between the office system, control panels and power switch network. The power switches will be controlled by RailComm’s Universal Switch Controller, which is designed to be compatible with any switch machine.

• The Greenbrier Cos. Inc. has named Mark Eitzen vice president and general manager of the Gunderson L.L.C. manufacturing plant in Portland, Ore., where he has served as general manager of the marine operation for the past five years. In his new position, Eitzen, who joined Greenbrier in 1999, will be responsible for Gunderson’s marine and rail operations, which employ about 900 people. Gunderson is Greenbrier’s flagship facility for freight-car manufacturing in North America, according to the company.

• Global design and construction firm CH2M Hill will acquire Booz Allen Hamilton’s state and local government transportation consulting business. The firm is selling the unit to better align its contract portfolio with its federal government business, Booz Allen Hamilton officials said in a prepared statement. The unit’s 35 years of service to rail and transit agencies “blends perfectly with CH2M Hill’s transit and rail planning, design, construction, program management and operations capabilities,” CH2M Hill officials said. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter.

• TransCore plans introduce a next-generation multi-protocol radio frequency identification (RFID) rail reader and a field processor unit, the Train Recording Unit (TRU™). Both products were designed to support the rail market’s transition to updated automatic equipment identification (AEI) technology to monitor rail car assets, according to TransCore.