Re: FA News

["Railway Rasputin3" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

A.Tubbs <atubbs@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Hi there
> Found this on the Rail America website :
>
> RailAmerica's Freight Australia Railroad Signs Multi-Year Contract For
> Transcontinental Rail Service
>
> BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- RailAmerica, Inc. (Nasdaq:
RAIL),
> the world's largest short line and regional railroad operator, today
> announced that its Australian-based railroad, Freight Australia, has
signed
> a new 5-year, exclusive agreement to provide transcontinental "hook-
> and-pull" rail service for one of the nation's leading freight forwarders,
> Specialized Container Transport (SCT), valued at approximately AUS $60
> million over the term of the contract. The service, which commences this
> October, elevates Freight Australia to transcontinental status, and comes
> against the background of its sister RailAmerica company, Freight WA,
being
> selected as a short-list bidder in the privatization process for western
> Australia's government-owned Westrail freight business.
>
> Under the agreement, Freight Australia will provide comprehensive
management
> of train services for SCT's Melbourne-Perth-Melbourne trains, which carry
> thousands of tons of freight each week on this vital east-west corridor.
For
> this "hook-and-pull" service, Freight Australia will deploy up to ten of
its
> 3,000-horsepower G-class locomotives and supply crews, rail cars, fueling
> services and train operations.
This is interesting, Railway Digest said ASR won the hook and pull contract
between Perth and Adelaide??

Also FA is short of motive power at the moment due to traffic growth and
lost of locos due to accidents does that means FA might order new locos or
buy 2nd hand loco from elsewhere??

Cheers
James




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