Happy to note that Wayne County Wire appears to be a parody site, because Speed 3 has already been done

All does not seem well in VIA corridor https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/topic/106318307#msg98685

That would be great if Steve Munro were not regularly correcting TTC Social Media for posting incorrect detour info. It’s really annoying to see the posts with old info overlaid by new. If you had time to put new posters up you should have had time to take the old down

Oh dear. TIL. RIP that operator. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RAB0306.pdf

Ontario Line supports the intensification of Thorncliffe/Flemingdon/Golden Mile (latter via Crosstown) and East Harbour. What are the equivalent wins for a west side Ontario Line? Once that is discovered, a route will be obvious. I don’t think that Metrolinx wants to build an automated metro to...

Your certainty that they are is what is grinding people’s gears.

Doubtless there is a view that only suckers read paper timetables and any who do have only themselves to blame if their travel is impacted

the TBMs are rated for 20km? Not 19.4 or 20.6, but 20? And at all depths and soil conditions? And without supplementary charge for support after a TBM extract reinsert, and no difference to insurance premiums? And with no cost to properly store it if the second project TBM portal is delayed...

Once both Crosstown and Ontario Line are open we have a better sense of commuter flows - who is staying on Crosstown past Don Mills, why didn’t they transfer How is demand adapting to Lawrence buses coming down Don Mills rather than going via Leslie What sort of day 1 saturation are we seeing...

Don’t the Nippons have steps projecting from the doors? if they are retractable (I am not certain from photos alone) maybe the concern is that they might spring out uncommanded or that a crew member might forget to retract them?

The open Amtrak RFP is for bilevel. Nothing single level at present. Alstom built the Surfliners I think, and Bombardier some Superliners. For single level LD CAF built the Viewliner 2s, Budd the Amfleets, Morrison-Knudsen the Viewliner 1s. Bombardier built Comets and Horizons (and LRC and...

Alstom have a render video in their announcement here. https://www.alstom.com/press-releases-news/2021/3/alstom-supply-200-multilevel-commuter-rail-cars-chicagos-metra-eu650-million

IIRC CAF have had employee retention issues and probably only have enough to keep streetcars for Kansas City moving. Kawasaki has the same issue in Nebraska. Alstom are building coaches for CTDOT - presumably in their ex-Bombardier NY plant given Hornell has enough going on with Avelia. I...

While I wish North American manufacturers would build some trainsets and lease them through a Porterbrook or similar entity, as a way of providing liquidity to the passenger rail car market (but also allowing mainline rail transit authorities to try before they buy), it seems like there are too...

Seems train 61 (0650 Montreal-Toronto) had a collision with a motor vehicle at a private crossing near Coteau (not a station stop on that service) this morning. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/collision-via-rail-train-van-monteregie-1.7209313?cmp=rss The train status shows it on the...

Not so easy to get from the former CN Massema Subdivision to the current CN Massema Spur - diamond is no longer extant. I suspect any such project would need to be going under or over CPKC here.

Cummins must be busy these days - only game in town for diesel buses, pretty much the only game in town for diesel passenger locomotives

Ah I see. My point was that not that the cars wouldn't operate at 80 - but that they would operate at 80 over the majority of their duty cycle which I saw as different from operating at that speed more slowly over much of it. One of the frequently heard complaints about ION is that the nature of...

The report does say that Nova have not actually ruled out continuing with hybrid in 2027, but that proceeding would be subject to market conditions. I wonder if TTC hadn’t indicated an intent to discontinue hybrid purchases prior to 2040 - 12 years (so 2028) if that would have kept Nova...

Can you be specific? I assume you don’t mean Ottawa given how poorly they have performed in service to date.