The maps there are wrong for the Ontario Line. There is a single facing crossover half-way between Don Valley and Sunnybrook Park...

Closing off the tracks to freight also means closing off the tracks to VIA (and eventually ALTO). It also means preventing GO trains...

Is this a recent development? The RDCs have wyed there many, many times over the years. Dan

OnXpress had a detailed plan for quite some length out into the future. I don't know the specific details, but they did account for...

No, we are not talking about electric locos - nothing that elaborate was put out to tender. What was put out to tender was things like...

It was the plan that they formulated that was then acted upon. They came up with the plan to operate more, smaller trains. That got...

The Citadis Spririt has a new truck design which, as far as I can tell, is unprecedented in its use under a low-floor LRT car. It is an...

They were fired. Do you think OnXpress' operations staff is still around? Dan

In theory, yes, this could be a use case for them. They also have a far greater range before needing to be fueled, so that would solve...

First off, all-in-all this was an excellent post. But I do want to point out this particular passage: It's not just operational staff...

There's two things I want to share in reply to this from an adjacent perspective. First, everything is designed to be your fault. The...

This has nothing to do with COVID. Shortly after Alstom was told that they were not going to get the operating and maintenance contract...

Authority over shortline railways historically was a federal matter, but oversight was delegated over the years from federal to...

No, they can't. First off, the drivers need to be trained on them. Very few of the drivers at Queensway are, and those are just drivers...

thettctransitfanatic's point about the maintainers is a pretty good one. But keep in mind that the SRT's end time didn't align with the...