Colorado Railcar engineers $9 million contract in Canada

FORT LUPTON – Colorado Railcar is on the fast track to success.

The company recently sold long-time customer Great Canadian Railtour Co. its innovative diesel multiple unit railcar, or DMU, and two coaches for about $9 million.

A DMU is a self-propelled passenger railcar that runs on diesel fuel. This is only the second DMU ever sold. In August 2002, Colorado Railcar finished the prototype and testing of the DMU. The company took the new product on a countrywide tour and sold the first unit to the Florida Department of Transportation last spring to be used in a two-year federal…