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Maple leaves on the line

by Tyler Brûlé - If you’ve had the misfortune of travelling through some of the US’s bigger, busier airports this week, you’ll no doubt have noticed that all of those threatened cuts to the country’s creaking transport infrastructure have started to bite – and rather hard. As if the situation wasn’t painful enough at the conveyor belt and X-ray machines, it’s now lurched to a sputtering halt. Already we had the comical scene of normally sensible people lining up in stocking feet (the seriously daft are the ones who go barefoot in airports that haven’t seen their floors get a proper cleaning since 1972), and toting multiple plastic bins full of the contents of their travel bags. This has now deteriorated from being a process that moved along with the jerky pace of a stop-motion sketch to something that resembles a frozen frame from a manga comic chronicling the collapse of civil society circa 2013. Read the rest of the article here. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/04c06b86-ad94-11e2-82b8-0

BOMBARDIER JET TRAIN - Even More Footage!

It always makes our day when we find footage of Bombardier's Jet Train. We still hold out a slim hope that this engine will be introduced some day. For background on the Jet Train go to this good summary on the TRAINoftheWEEK BLOG .We have also added a Bombardier JET TRAIN PLAYLIST on are very popular Youtube Channel.

Bombardier Wins German High Speed Rail Contract

Bombardier Transportation has been granted a $440-million contract to design and supply major components for the next generation ICx high-speed trains for Deutsche Bahn AG. The order comes under a framework agreement with Siemens AG signed in May 2011. DB AG recently expanded its original order by an additional 170 coaches. Bombardier Transportation, a division of Montreal-based plane and train maker Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B), said in an announcement Monday that it will supply Siemens with all the body shells as well as trailer bogies and other components for the new ICx fleet. Bombardier will also carry out the final assembly of all end coaches and of some intermediate coaches. The steel car bodies, which promise significant reductions in energy consumption, are being developed in the Bombardier factory in Hennigsdorf, Germany, and are being manufactured in Gorlitz, Germany. Hennigsdorf is responsible for the final assembly of all ICx end coaches. Bombardier will also carry o