A global view Insights, projects and people from across the world of Rail & Transit at SNC-Lavalin Graduates storm to victory in the Railway Challenge A group of 12 budding engineers from SNC-Lavalins Rail & Transit team won the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Railway Challenge after impressive performances in 10 tasks. This is the second time that a team from the company has won, after victory in the 2012 competition. Andris Upenieks, one of SNC-Lavalins Graduate Engineers, said: We are immensely proud of our achievement and take away some fantastic hands-on experience of what it takes to make a locomotive from start to finish. Bill Reeve, Chief Judge, said: SNC-Lavalin put in an impressive performance across all 10 challenges,and their locomotive performed faultlessly. I would like to congratulate the team for their excellent project management, an innovative design and first-rate operational performance. The competition consisted of a series of track-based and presentation challenges. These included a design report and an Innovation Challenge, which involved the production of an academic paper on the innovations in the locomotive. The track-based challenges included energy storage, traction, ride comfort, noise and maintainability. The locomotives were designed to work on 10-inch gauge railway line and had to be powerful enough to transport a 600kg load including oneof the Railway Challenge judges. The trophy was presented to the winning team by Professor Richard Folkson, Past President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. snclavalin.com