As @smallspy said, there is no need to assume anything, because he already explained to you why the unit numbers of the locomotives of the first ten Siemens setsdon‘t match the cars in the trainsets (because the first set was sent with a spare locomotive, whereas the tenth set was sent without a...

You have to ask that the federal government and not VIA, though I heard claims (maybe from @smallspy or @dowlingm , but not sure?) that these options have already expired…

Not sure what exactly you are proposing, but it presumably would still necessitate VIA beg for money. According to VIA’s collective bargaining agreements, locomotive engineers are in charge of loading and unloading baggage en-route. That’s how one locomotive engineer lost his leg in Truro in...

The minimum service requirement for HEP baggage cars is 14: 2 for Ocean 1 for JONQ 1 for SENN 3 for Canadian 1 for train 3/4 (if it returns) 3 for CHUR 2 for Skeena However, you absolutely need guards at VMC and MMC, so you are already down to a single spare, provided that all 17 cars are...

F40s routinely do 1052 km (MTRL-MCTN) without refueling on the Ocean. SUDB-WHTR is 484 km…

I might have focused on the wrong explanation: the entire purpose of cab cars is to remote-control a locomotive (which quite probably comes from a different manufacturer), whereas the entire purpose of multiple units is to run in tandem with multiple units of the same model (and thus...

How would an RDC have been designed with the capability to remote-control locomotives built 30 years later?

Agreed, but the problem is that it is much more difficult to confidently decipher what DND and NRE stand for if it‘s not really clear that we are talking about governmental departments or Engineering/Procurements. Context matters and I believe that the reactions to my inititial post show that...

You should know your audience and stick to abbreviations which are commonly used in this forum. I invite you and @kEiThZ to search the 1152 pages of comments in this thread to find any mentions of DND and NRE prior to this week… (And yes, the search function absolutely sucks for three-letter...

I kind of figured DND out, but it didn‘t make any sense to me since I had never come across NRE (not just as an acronym, but also as a concept). Maybe keep in mind in the future that this is an urbanist and not a military or public procurement forum and that not commonly-used and widely...

If even rail nerds like myself have no idea what we are talking about, there is a slight problem. What is DND and what is NRE? Don‘t worry about HFR, that one I know… ;)

Indeed, corridor-sharing for ~60 km (MTRL-COTO/DeBeaujeu) is less disruptive than for ~200 km (MTRL-Winchester-SMTF), let alone: ~500 km (MTRL-Kingston-Pickering). Granted, the Kingston alignment allows to stop at different cities, but the entire HFR model of seperating primary (T-O, T-M and...

The people who put that line on that map are those responsible for promoting the project (i.e. the HFR-TGF team), as the people who will be in charge of funding, designing, constructing and operating the project (i.e., whoever wins the ongoing RFQ/RFP-process) have yet to be found. Any proponent...

There absolutely isn‘t any economic or commercial rationale to invest in infrastructure upgrades for bypassing Ottawa, given the small potential number of direct trains and the limited ridership potential for such direct trains, as we‘ve already discussed to death here on UT and elsewhere (just...

Some HEP-I cars have been assigbed to supplement the Corridor fleet, which has enabled the steady growth in Corrudor frequencies pre-Covid. Only those which haven‘t been condemned yet - and it‘s abundantly clear that no LRC will remain in service once the delivery of the new Corridor Fleet is...

I would assume that adding a stop at stations with single platforms is much more difficult than at those with multiple platforms. For instance, an all-stop train will have to be in Fallowfield Smiths Falls, Gananoque, Napannee, Trenton Junction and Port Hope on the Southern track, which...

HEP-I coaches don‘t have a galley (except for 8145-47, which are running exclusively on the JONQ/SENN service), which is why they can‘t run as car 3 (i.e., the first ECO coach) or in pairs, which means you have to mix them with LRC or HEP-II cars…

VIA hasn’t even operated the western part of that third summer-only frequency (i.e., west of Edmonton) since 2019…

To volunteer just five reasons: 1) because there is no direct track connection between the two stations without at least one change of direction 2) because the timetables for both services don‘t allow for sensible connections between the SUDB-WHTR service and the Canadian 3) because barely...

If people leave because they don‘t enjoy the amenities and job opportunities which virtually all other Canadians can (rightly) take for granted, why should we blame them and not those policy makers which allocate the resources which are used to decide where living conditions and economic...