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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- California's Great America will open the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in Northern California in the spring of 2013. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tallest-and-fastest-wooden-roller-coaster-in-northern-california-to-open-at-californias-great-america-in-2013-167768525.html High-speed twists, turns, drops, station fly-by and the Old West...

HONG KONG, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Guangshen Railway Company Limited ("Guangshen Railway" or the "Company") (HKEx Share Code: 525; SSE Share Code: 601333; American Depositary Shares ("ADS") Ticker Symbol: GSH) today announced its unaudited operating results for the six months ended June 30, 2012 (the "Period") of the Company and its subsidiaries (the "Group"). During the Period, operating revenue of the Company reached RMB7,011 million, an increase of 1.11%...

TORONTO, Aug. 20, 2012 /CNW/ - Maclos Capital Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has changed its name from LMS Medical Systems Inc. to Maclos Capital Inc. effective August 20, 2012. SOURCE LMS Medical Systems Inc.

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- L.B. Foster Company (NASDAQ: FSTR) announced that it has been awarded a contract by RailWorks Track Systems, Inc. to supply 11,000 of its CXT(® )Concrete Ties for the construction of an unloading facility at the Tesoro oil products refinery in Anacortes, Washington. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101222/MM21387LOGO ) The Tesoro Corporation refinery is at the western end of an ambitious railway transport system that will...

RA'ANANA, Israel, August 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) today announced that Lima's electric train authority, Autoridad Autonoma Tren Electrico (AATE), has implemented NICE's integrated security solutions at Lima Metro, the new mass transit system for Lima, Peru, which is the fifth largest city in Latin America. Serving millions of passengers monthly, Lima Metro is using the NICE solutions portfolio to address security, safety, and operational risks on...

WILMERDING, Pa., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) has completed the acquisition of Winco Equipamentos Ferroviarios Ltda., to expand its presence in Brazil. Wabtec expects the transaction to be accretive in the first year. Based in Sao Paolo and with annual sales of about $15 million, Winco is an established marketing and sales company with capabilities including value-added engineering and assembly, service, technical support and logistics. The company has...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- L.B. Foster Company (NASDAQ: FSTR) announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide 89,175 of its CXT Concrete Ties for the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) project. The CXT Fastclip ties will be installed on the new San Francisco Bay Area passenger rail system connecting Sonoma County to the Larkspur Ferry Terminal in Marin. L.B. Foster began shipping ties to the general contractor, Stacy and Witbeck Inc./Herzog Contracting...

HEIDENHEIM, Germany, July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- London. 3,000 tubes, 1,500 double-decker busses, the Eurostar, the Javelin shuttle and several ferries on the Thames all have two things in common: they are all fitted with Voith technology and will ensure that millions of spectators and over 10,000 athletes get safely and soundly where they want to go during the Olympic Games. Voith drive technology as well as various technical services for numerous busses and trains will make a key...

A new analysis gives Californians good reason to be optimistic about the green credentials of the state’s proposed high-speed rail project, due to begin construction in 2013 thanks to funding recently approved by state legislators. Arpad Horvath at the University of California, Berkeley, and Mikhail Chester at Arizona State University compared the future sustainability of California high-speed rail with that of competing modes of transportation, namely automobile and air travel. They...

WILMERDING, Pa., July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) has signed a contract to manufacture brake equipment for freight cars to be purchased by GATX Rail Europe, a leading European rail equipment lessor. GATX Rail Europe sources cars from various European-based suppliers. Under the contract, Wabtec will provide various models of brake systems, including the following components: control valves, slack adjusters, cylinders, new compact bogie brakes, discs and...