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• Railhead Vision Systems has obtained a contract to install cameras on the front and back of Caltrain’s trains to provide information to investigators if a fatality occurs on tracks, according to a press release. Similar cameras were installed on Metrolink trains after a fatal collision between a Metrolink train and Union Pacific Railroad train two years ago. Metrolink contracted Railhead to install the cameras inside train control rooms to monitor engineers, as well as outward-facing cameras.

• Train Technologies, Siemens’ joint venture with Russian rail technology provider Sinara, has obtained a $2.8 billion contract from RZD for 1,200 Desiro RUS-type regional passenger cars. Production on the cars in the Ural Locomotives factory near Yekaterinburg, Russia, is scheduled to begin in 2013. RZD also awarded Siemens a 40-year maintenance contract, effective in 2013 and covering a total of 54 trains.

• Alstom Transport and Transmashholding have unveiled the first joint production resulting from their partnership established in Russia between the two companies: an electric locomotive for EP20 passenger trains. The first production unit will be followed in a few months by the 2ES5 electric locomotive, according to an Alstom press release. Since 2008, the two partners have received orders for a total of 700 locomotives for the Russian Railways and Kazakhstan Railways worth $4.9 billion. In addition, Alstom and Promelectronica announced plans to develop a partnership to commercialize rail signaling equipment adapted to the 1520 standards in the Russian and CIS market.

• Invensys Rail recently commissioned the latest phase of the Oslo Metro T-Bane signaling program on behalf of infrastructure operator KTPAS in Norway. Invensys installed and commissioned the signaling system for the metro and tram lines. Based on the company’s WESTRACE interlocking, the system features three-aspect signals for the tram and four for the metro, according to Invensys.

• Wabtec Corp. subsidiary MotivePower Inc. has obtained contracts worth $30 million to build locomotives for commuter-rail projects in central Florida and Seattle. The locomotives are scheduled for delivery in 2012 and 2013. MotivePower will provide seven remanufactured, 3,000-horsepower locomotives to the Florida Department of Transportation for the SunRail commuter-rail line and three 4,000-horsepower locomotives to Sound Transit.

• Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad Co. has extended its maintenance and support agreement with RailComm for a computerized Centralized Traffic Control and Track Warrant Control System, according to RailComm. RailComm’s Domain Operations Controller (DOC®) dark territory train control system has been in service at the short line since 2005.
 
• Transportation Services Inc. has appointed John Zoller vice president of sales and marketing. TSI and its affiliated companies offer rail-car maintenance and plant switching services.