All New Jersey Transit locomotives will be outfitted by Dec. 31 with lifesaving braking technology, according to Governor Phil Murphy’s office. The milestone means that NJ Transit, operator of the nation’s second-busiest commuter railroad, can ask federal regulators for two…
New Jersey Transit has made swift progress on a lifesaving emergency-braking project, but remains among five U.S. railroads, including Amtrak, that risk missing a Dec. 31 installation deadline, according to federal regulators. Almost 20 percent of locomotives owned by NJ…
FRANCE: In a presentation at the Alpine Rail Optimisation conference in Wien on November 8 Director of Wagon Management at SNCF Fret Nicolas Czernecki confirmed that the operator had become the first railway in Europe to implement automated brake testing…
Technology designed to suck up the particles emitted by trains during braking is to be trialled by SNCF. Working with Tallano Technologie, SNCF will fit the TAMIC® system to trains in the Ile-de-France region as part of an experiment which aims to improve…
Knorr-Bremse continues to trumpet its success creating greener products. Today, the company announced that its new rail products also have a lower CO2 footprint. Its rail vehicle Light Weight Caliper achieves a 24% reduction in CO2 footprint compared to the…