Rail supplier news Alstom, WPA, BGL, A. Stucki and J.B. Hunt (May 31)

Alstom was awarded a 15-year maintenance contract for Sydney Metro’s North West Metro. The company will maintain the trains, signaling, depot operations and equipment, as well as apply Alstom’s HealthHub predictive maintenance tools, according to an Alstom press release. Under a contract awarded by Northwest Rapid Transit in 2014, Alstom has been responsible for the project management, design, supply, manufacturing, testing and commissioning of the metro’s Metropolis trains and Urbalis 400 communications-based train control signaling systems.

WPA USA completed engineering work on Denver Regional Transportation District’s newly opened southeast light-rail extension project. As a subcontractor, WPA provided civil engineering and rail system engineering design and support for the 2.3-mile extension from Lincoln Station to RidgeGate Parkway in Lone Tree, Colorado, according to a WPA press release.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. (BGL), an investment bank and financial advisory firm, hired Todd Wilson as managing director in the environmental and industrial services group. In this position, Wilson will lead BGL's transportation and logistics practice, which includes mergers and acquisitions and capital markets for rail, trucking, logistics and other transportation-related services.

A. Stucki Co. released a new pocket product guide as a resource to identify, inspect and maintain the company’s rail products. The 108-page guide covers bearings, friction wedges, springs, brake beams, yokes, couplers, pins and more, according to a company press release.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. announced it has been named to the Fortune 500 list for the seventh consecutive year, moving up 41 positions to 354 and making the top 400 for the second time in company history.