Rail supplier news from Stadler, Delta Railroad, Hitachi Rail and Copperleaf (Oct. 29)

Stadler and the Utah Transit Authority have signed a contract for Stadler to provide up to 80 new light-rail vehicles tailored for the UTA TRAX service in and around Salt Lake City. Stadler is set to build the vehicles at its Salt Lake City manufacturing site. This agreement is Stadler’s first large light-rail contract in North America and the first serial contract in Utah. The initial $129 million contract is for 20 new Stadler Citylink light-rail cars and funded, in part, by a Federal Transit Administration grant. Pending additional funding, it includes options for 60 additional vehicles, all built in accordance with federal Buy America requirements.

Delta Railroad Services, a railroad construction and equipment rental company, has opened its East Coast headquarters in Queens, New York. The new location is centrally located to several of its ongoing rail and transit projects. Based in Ashtabula, Ohio, Delta Railroad's East Coast headquarters represents an extension of the company's long history and presence in the New York market. It will focus on new construction, maintenance and repairs for transit and commuter rail to reduce the New York City congestion, company officials said in a press release.

Hitachi Rail and Strides Engineering joined forces to renew CCTVs across Singapore’s North-South and East-West Lines (NSEWL). The project is designed to improve CCTV network infrastructure and camera capacity across Singapore’s most heavily used metro lines. This is the second project on NSEWL undertaken by Hitachi Rail, after the signaling system upgrade commissioned in 2018, according to a Hitachi Rail press release.

Copperleaf's AI-powered decision analytics solution has been selected by SNCF Gares & Connexions (G&C), the operator responsible for over 3,000 rail stations in France. SNCF G&C is part of SNCF Group, a global leader in passenger and freight logistics services, including management of the French rail network. Copperleaf is a subsidiary of IFS, a provider of enterprise cloud and industrial AI software.