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  • They are attending the select committee on transport, which is meeting to discuss UK rolling-stock procurement, at which representatives of both Siemens and Bombardier will be questioned.

    Survey predicts huge job losses as Bombardier loses Thameslink contract 2011

  • Kawasaki Heavy Industries , one of Japan's leading rolling-stock makers, said it switched from Mizuho to another major bank, at least for now, to ensure that its employees receive their salaries on time.

    Crunch Time for Mizuho Bank Atsuko Fukase 2011

  • Juergen Wilder, general manager for the company's rolling-stock division in the U.S., said the company would likely use its Sacramento plant to make any new trains ordered through the stimulus funding.

    U.S. Commits $13 Billion to Aid High-Speed Rail 2009

  • It also plans to build an industrial town, a rolling-stock factory and a ship-repair plant.

    Sunshine Touches The Land Of Long Shadows 2008

  • The mere cost of iron, right of way, rolling-stock, and power-plants was immense.

    The Titan 2004

  • Cowperwood calculated its shares, bonds, rolling-stock, and other physical properties as totaling in the vicinity of over two million dollars.

    The Titan 2004

  • I ordered the driver, who was driving furiously, to make half speed; but even with this precaution there were sundry stoppages; and at the Naffíshah station, where my Bolognese acquaintances still throve, we could not be supplied with a change of “rolling-stock.”

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Expenditures on transportation infrastructure and equipment are even greater, particularly in the purchase of rails, rolling-stock and locomotives, which should reach over $70 million this year.

    The Canadian Economy in International Development 1977

  • The summer calm lies over everything: rolling-stock inert on its tracks, one soldier sitting against an orange-topped oil drum trying to play an accordion.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • It should be made a legal arbitrator in all matters of controversy between railroad companies and warehouses and their patrons; and it should be required to make examination of roads, and be invested with authority to compel reparation of unsafe and defective bridges, culverts, track, and rolling-stock.

    Fifty Years of Public Service Shelby M. Cullom

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