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Amtrak: Is exercising an option in its contract with the Bombardier/Alstom consortium to acquire two additional high speed trainsets, valued at $35 million, for the Northeast Corridor. Each trainset will consist of two power cars and six coaches and will be manufactured and assembled at the Bombardier Transportation plants in Quebec, New York, and Vermont. This order brings the total number of NEC high speed trainsets to 20.
GO Transit: Awarded a $6 million (C) contract to Alstom's Montreal remanufacturing center for the overhaul of 16 F59 locomotives. The first 10 are to be returned to service by Dec. 31; the remaining six are to be delivered in the first half of 1999.
Herzog Contracting Corp.: Cattron is...