MODERN RAILWAY SYSTEMS INC.
ALAMEDA, CA

We promote a safety culture in every aspect of our business. Safety starts at the top, and it is each of our employee’s individual responsibility to work safely and look out for the safety of those who work beside us. MRS places a major emphasis on integrity and quality. We employ and train only the most talented managers, engineers, and craft supervisors. Producing quality work is the right thing to do and it comes naturally to us. We recognize that the quality of what we build directly impacts the lives of the traveling public and continually strive to provide our clients and the public with the safest, most efficient and dependable transportation available. We believe that the achievement of quality is the responsibility of the entire project team, and we are committed to providing the necessary training, support, materials, and tools to constantly achieve quality excellence. “MRS always takes an open and honest approach to all of their work. This falls directly in line with the ‘UTA Way’ and helped to make UTA’s Frontlines 2015 program come in under budget and two years ahead of schedule.” Our commitment to the communities in which we work is best exemplified by our encouragement of our employees to lead and participate in local events, activities and charitable pursuits. Additionally, MRS supports the communities in which we work, at all levels of our organization by continuing to search and implement ways to lessen the impact of our work on local businesses and residents. President Gerry McKenna founded MRS in 2001 as Rail Systems Solutions (RSS), to provide turnkey services and expertise in program management and controls, systems integration, signal design, materials, construction, commissioning, documentation, training and maintenance of complex systems to the transit and freight industry throughout North America. In 2004, RSS (with our joint venture partner MJG, Inc.), was awarded its first signaling project and tasked to design, furnish, install and commission the signal system for Utah Transit Authority’s FrontRunner North Commuter Rail project. Our scope also included installation of 23 sets of carborne cab signal equipment on UTA’s fleet of locomotives and cab cars. In addition, RSS also provided maintenance training for signaling, crossing, and carborne cab signal equipment. Please see our In November 2011, RSS and its 12 employees became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stacy and Witbeck, Inc., and changed its name to Modern Railway Systems. SWI established MRS to expand and diversify their offerings and provide a broad range of solutions to their customers. MRS offers its customers a proven track record of exceeding customer expectations from an execution and quality perspective and are now able to offer a complete range of services to our customers. . MRS plans to enhance MML products provided to Canadian railways by offering more complete product solutions, leveraging the growth of MML and MRS in Canada. Additionally, MML provides another supply resource for projects MRS bids and executes in the US. MML employs 51 people. Design, Furnish, Install, Commission, Maintain. Our team of seasoned experts provide a wide range of services to customers in the rail transportation industry. Our primary focus is the train control disciplines, but our capabilities extend to the communications, power distribution and rail operations disciplines as well. MRS delivers turnkey projects from conceptual design through to the maintenance of installed systems. We also provide management and supervision of forces supplied by others, depending on the requirements of the owner, project and local union.