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Articles in Dec, 2004 issue of Railway Age

• Safety mini-lights
• Teamsters now represent 42% of rail unionists
• Optimizing the fleet
• Gerald K. Davies plans to retire as Kansas City Southern's executive VP and COO by year-end
• FRA talks tough in Texas
• RailAmerica
• Transit ridership report
• RailPower's Green Goat hitting its stride
• Metabo Corp
• Victory! Track-rehab tax credit approved
  by Richard F. Timmons
• Canadian Pacific: implemented NextPath Value Added Network messaging services under a multi-year agreement with Railinc
• Beantown's: as MBTA's FY 2005-2010 capital program takes shape, state-of-good repair projects top expansions 4:1
  by Marybeth Luczak
• Sanding system
• VTA : awarded a contract to a joint venture of Parsons Brinckerhoff and PHG Wong Engineering, Inc., for systems design of the 16.5-mile, $4.8 billion Silicon Valley Rapid Transit project, which will extend the BART system from Fremont to Mineta Internatio
• To lease, or not to lease? Excerpted from a research paper by Dennis J. Gilstad, founder and CEO of FCM Rail, Ltd., and Gary M. Andrew. Both have extensive academic as well as practical experience in the economics of leasing
  by Dennis J. Gilstad
• Meetings
• Who's playing Russian roulette?
  by William C. Vantuono
• How passenger rail fared at the polls
• Railway Association of North Carolina
• The magnificent 7 CPR: patience, precision, prudence
  by Greg Gormick
• Maryland Transit Administration
• DART enhances lines of communication
• increased need for cars
• Updated railroad fact book
• Metronet : Bombardier Transportation awarded a contract to Wabtec subsidiary Vapor Rail for the supply of door systems for 376 subway cars being built for the London Underground Victoria Line Upgrade project
• Orchestrating the train-m/w ballet
• General Electric Co
• China chooses GE for new power, train control
• WAGO Corp
• White collar positions shrink as operating jobs grow
• New York
• Southwest Signal Engineering Co
• Iraqi Railway: ordered three Mobile Welders and two Super Pullers with trucks from Holland L.P. for the rail system Holland
• A smo-o-o-th ride: lubrication in its various forms not only provides a better ride, but also reduces wheel and rail wear and fuel consumption
  by Tom Judge
• CATTRON Group
• Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad: completed implementation of Railinc's Internet-based Transportation Management System, RailSync Command
• Mexico's need for a new currency
• GE Rail looks for more capacity
• Chicago
• Portec
• Traffic originated
• Not just another new box
• HNTB Corp
• Railroad asset management
• Cedar American Rail Holdings: ordered 200 special-purpose flat cars from Johnstown America Corp
• California
• LED signal modules
• Obituary
• Total rail fatalities up 8.3% in eight months
• Weighing the options
• Florida East Coast Railway, LLC
• AOLC
• Canadian Pacific
• Average Class I train speed
• NPRM on loco crash standards issued
• Irwin Transportation Seating
• Website directory
• Bay Area Rapid Transit: awarded a $3.4 million follow-on contract to Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., to expand the scope of work on automated fare collection equipment
• Fluidity, velocity, capacity, consistency: these are the biggest challenges the railroads face as they enter 2005 with traffic volume and revenues continuing to grow at a brisk pace
  by William C. Vantuono