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• Alstom has obtained a $114 million contract from the Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux to supply 26 high-capacity Citadis tramsets designed to accommodate up to 400 riders. Options for an additional 30 tramsets could be exercised later, which would increase the total contract worth $253 million, according to Alstom.

• Thales has appointed Alistair McPhee vice president of Thales UK’s transportation systems business. McPhee joined Thales in August 2010 to lead the rail signaling business, with a specific focus on various large Transport for London contracts. He has worked in the rail industry for the past nine years, including a stint at Westinghouse Rail Systems, a subsidiary of Invensys.

• Hub Group Inc.’s Comtrak Logistics Inc. subsidiary has acquired certain assets of Domestic Transport Inc., an intermodal drayage carrier in Pacific, Wash. “This acquisition is well aligned with our goal of growing Hub Group’s drayage network,” said Chris Kravas, Hub’s chief intermodal officer, in a prepared statement. “This is the 25th Comtrak terminal in our network and it gives us significant drayage operation in the Seattle market.” Domestic Transport owners Leon Borodyansky and Kirill Korchinsky will serve in leadership roles at Comtrak.

• Brown Industries L.L.C. has launched Brown Rail Equipment to build custom-engineered section trucks and large trucks for handling and lifting materials. “The kind of vehicles we are building at Brown have multiple purposes … such as inspecting and performing track maintenance,” said Stuart Seeger, who serves as sales and service liaison between customer and manufacturing, in a prepared statement. “Brown will also offer vehicles featuring hi-rail, grapple and rail testing.”

• HNTB Corp.’s Northeast division has added four rail professionals who will work with the firm’s high-speed rail, intercity rail and transit teams. Jeffrey Parker and Al Trotta have joined the Philadelphia office — Parker as an associate vice president and senior project manager, and Trotta as senior project manager. Joseph Pizzurro has joined the New York City office as an associate vice president, director of rail; and Lester Eckrich has joined the Wayne, N.J., office as senior project manager.