Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
Spain: The German leasing company has ordered rolling stock from Tatravagonka, Slovakia. The new flatcars can operate on both 1,435 mm and 1,668 mm gauge tracks.
Czechia: The three-car trainset was assembled at the Skoda production plant in Ostrava, Czechia, and shipped to another plant in Pilsen for testing on a nearly one km test track.
USA: The road-rail Commander NXT railcar mover will be available in four models with tractive effort ranging from 115 to 183 kN.
Russia: This was told to journalists by Alexander Dubrovkin, CEO of PC Transport Systems (PC TS).
Germany: Der Spiegel disclosed this information with reference to a letter from Stefan Schnorr, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.
Slovakia: Three six-car trains, which can run in multiple and reach speeds of 160 km/h, have been put into service on regional lines.
Turkiye: The four-car trainset designed for Line M11 of the Istanbul metro rolled off the line at CRRC's plant in Ankara earlier this year.
Russia: The Ust-Katav Car-building Plant (UKCP) has informed ROLLINGSTOCK that it will start installing the system on the 71-628 trams and their modifications.
