Railway Market

For Holland, contracts around the globe

Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Gunderson, Britain's Thrall Europa, American Railcar Industries, and Indian railcar builders Cimmco Birla and HDC have selected Holland Company to supply a variety of railcar components. To protect the doors of new automobiles in transit, UP, CP, and Gunderson have ordered Holland's Door Edge Protection System for Auto Racks. Thrall Europa has purchased Holland's Low Profile Locks for use on 400 railcars. The Stowable-Flanged Container, Low Profile Locks for intermodal cars release automatically and fit both non-ISO and traditional-ISO corner castings. ARI will install Holland's Duradek® T-5000 Fiberglass Running Panels on Engelhard's 200 new clay slurry tank cars. Duradek is produced, in part, with Engelhard's ASP 400 powdered clay. Additionally, Cimmco Birla and HDC have placed orders for Holland's Automatic Twist Lock for Containers on Railcars, which will be modified for Concor, India's intermodal company.

Equipment

MTA Long Island Rail Road: Awarded Globe Transportation Graphics a four-year contract to install TransGrafix® HPPL™ (High Performance Photo-Luminescent) emergency exit signage, low-location exit path markings, and retro-reflective emergency exit signage on LIRR's 1,000-plus railcars. The contract is valued at more than $550,000.

Facilities

Arizona Regional Public Transportation Authority: Selected Parsons Brinckerhoff to provide preliminary engineering for a 20-mile, 22-station regional light rail starter system linking downtown Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa, Ariz. Construction will begin in 2003.

Ferrocarril Central Andino S.A. (Lima, Peru): Selected Rail Traffic Control, Inc., a subsidiary of Iowa Interstate Railroad Ltd., to supply a computerized Track Warrant Control System.

Minnesota Department of Transportation: Selected Parsons Brinckerhoff to provide project management services during final design and construction of the 11.4-mile Lake Hiawatha light rail transit system. The line will extend from downtown Minneapolis to the Mall of Americas in Bloomington and will link to an underground station at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. PB will oversee the project's design-build contractor, which will be selected this summer. LTK Engineering Services and BRW, Inc., will provide subconsultant services. The project is slated for completion in Fall 2004.

Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority (Los Angeles): Awarded the joint venture of Modern Continental/ HNTB a $20.62 million contract for a 0.7-mile double-track viaduct from Union Station to Chinatown, part of a project to build a 13.7-mile light rail line between downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena. The Los Angeles County MTA completed about 12% of the work before it suspended its rail transit expansion program. The Chinatown segment is scheduled for completion by January 2002. Revenue service on the entire route is set to begin in July 2003.

Union Pacific: Is building a $2.5 million auto unloading facility in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that will serve a seven-state area for DaimlerChrysler. The manufacturer early this year selected UP to handle all of its vehicles moving by rail west of the Mississippi River.

Utah Transit Authority: Awarded SLC Rail Constructors a design-build contract estimated at $118 million for a 2.5-mile TRAX light rail extension from downtown Salt Lake City to the University of Utah.