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08/03/2024

03/26/2024

Stadler's new FLIRT H2 hydrogen-powered train, equipped with our Railcom TRS2090 radio system. Breaking records!

Stadler’s FLIRT H2 achieves Guinness World Records title

Stadler has set the Guinness World Records title for the furthest distance achieved by a hydrogen-powered passenger train without refueling. Our FLIRT H2 is officially a World Record Holder, driving a total of 2,803 kilometers (1,741.7 miles) for over 46 hours on one fuel supply.

Find out more about the world record achievement:

Media release:https://www.stadlerrail.com/media/pdf/2024_0325_media_release_stadler_achieves_world_record_title_en.pdf

Youtube video: https://youtu.be/bYOUYNKktro

12/01/2023

CSX Christmas Party aboard their corporate train at Washington Union Station!

11/26/2023

10/10/2023

Stadler tests their new groundbreaking hydrogen-powered train at the Transportation Technology Center in Colorado, with Colo. Gov. Jared Polis in the cab. Also aboard, chosen by Stadler--- Railcom's TRS2090 train radio! (Radio control head and handset just below Polis's arm). The trains will be used in the San Bernardino, Calif., transit system as the first of its kind in the country.

08/23/2023

The east tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel has been reopened for freight traffic and is available for almost 100 trains per day, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) reports. With that route now handling freight traffic that had been rerouted over the Gotthard Pass panorama route, improved passenger service....

07/12/2023

RAILCOM enjoying Durango & Silverton!

A short film from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad journey through the San Juan Mountains between Durengo, Colorado and Silverton, Colorado.

11/23/2022

Just days from reaching the Moon, NASA’s Orion Spacecraft captured this selfie while flying through space.

The I mission is preparing us to bring astronauts to the Moon. https://go.nasa.gov/3hXFbHh

04/14/2022

The images of the murdered civilians in Bucha shocked the world. DER SPIEGEL has learned that German intelligence intercepted radio traffic from suspected perpetrators. It appears that such atrocities were part of the strategy of Putin's army.

03/28/2022

Deutsche Bahn, the German Railroad, sending special freight trains to Ukraine with aid. "Rail Bridge Ukraine"

02/27/2022

Submersible—- We talked and listened on this Motorola Ion radio (via the speaker-microphone) while it was fully submerged. Digital radio and Android platform. IP68 rated. I never get tired of this demonstration!

02/24/2022

From RAILCOM: The new Motorola R7 digital/analog portable radio, shown at the Motorola Partner Expo in Orlando. Engineered best audio, transmit audio with noise elimination, water-immersible. Best, most rugged portable radio on the market.

01/31/2022

Railroad industry news about: Union Pacific Railroad, UP, world’s largest battery electric locomotive freight fleet, Wabtec, Progress Rail, FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive, EMD Joule locomotive. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine

01/29/2022

With CSX SD50-3 8619 as the trailing and 3232 leading, hot intermodal I025 (Bedford Park, IL - Moncrief Yard - Jacksonville, FL)climbs the viaduct over the Ohio River flood plain area at Rahm, Indiana, just south of Evansville, IN on January 27th, 2022.

Here they are approaching the bridge over the Ohio river between Rahm, IN and Henderson, Ky as it makes its way south on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on a cold winter morning!

From the Web: The current viaduct and bridge were built by the L&N railroad and were dedicated on the last day of 1932 at a cost about $4 million. It replaced one erected in 1885, also built by the L&N, which at that time was the longest channel span of that type in the world at 2.3 miles long.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/250, ISO 200.

01/29/2022

Amtrak recently sent an ALC-42 west on the Empire Builder route to familiarize crews before the locomotives are put into service.

01/21/2022

CULVER CITY, Calif. — Union Pacific has expressed interest in a new autonomous battery-electric intermodal car concept developed by a group headed by three former Space X engineers. The concept under development by Parallel Systems would see intermodal containers carried by pairs of powered batter...

01/15/2022

The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have developed a new Rail Es**rt Vehicle to transport security personnel during the shipment of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; it is on its way to the Transportation Technology Center, Inc., (TTCI) for the final phase of tes...