Indeed, it was used as a dump. The building I thought might have been a lumber yard, according to this text might have been a brick company. https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2016/01/26/the-kinnaird-bridge/ On topic, no trains out today yet. Maintenance crews blowing out flangeways Downtown...

A railway yard no, industrial yes. It looks like a good portion of the site in 1965 was a lumber company of some sort. Not sure if it was related to Muttatt's or not, who as far as I know was on the other side of the tracks and further south.

Marigold's contract is only design, build, and I believe partially finance. TransEd's contract is design, build, finance, maintain, operate. I strongly suspect Edmonton will negotiate a operations contract with TransEd at the least, maybe even maintain, although, ETS has existing in house...

46 as a quantity has existed for a little while, at least back to the start of the year a friend found a reference to 46 cars. As I Ave said before, I don't think there are enough of the Bombardier cars to service the VLSE LRT as it is, I wouldn't be surprised if this order picks up the slack so...

U2's are Siemens and Duwag built. Siemens only did the electrical equipment, of which some parts have been replaced by newer technology anyways. Regardless, it doesn't matter who produced the equipment. They are different fleets. They are not interoperable. Calgary did make their fleets...

It will go for tender and the proponent judged by the City to be providing the best, compliant vehicle will win. Just because Siemens has been supplying high floors, Edmonton awarded the low floor order to Rotem, and Calgary's low floor cars went to CAF with Siemens losing Calgary and I don't...

That's so far down the track it's not worthwhile worrying about. I'm sure the NLRT funding would now include money to expand the OMF to it's intended size. Ditto for sufficient LRV's.

Rust developing on the rails at 31 Ave- trains have definitely not been running to Mill Woods TC for the past 3-4 says now.

I'm curious what everyone else been spotting for LRV testing the last 2 days. Personally, I've seen nothing at Mill Woods TC the past 2 days, and today I was right at the station for 15-20 minutes and saw nothing. Just wondering if it's the whole line with minimal activity or just way down here.

The problem is I don't think the infrastructure at HSS would allow you to turn back NE trains with only 1 track with current frequencies. Right now, the NE and S legs are much better paired for ridership and frequency than the N line would be with either the NE or S LRT lines. I've always...

Everything looked good this morning, it looked like 5 minute service. Around 9:30 heading Downtown, I think I saw a train that had just gone off line as a train would after the morning peak hour and frequency now seemed more like 10 minutes. Heading south around 12:00 however, it seems something...

St. Louis is installing fare gates at their 38 LRT station at a cost of $52 million. However, they are doing this despite being told it won't help: "The move came even though its security consultant recommended against turnstiles, concluding that fare evasion had little correlation with more...

Saw something interesting today. Noted 1023/ 1024 heading south at Grey Nuns. Ran back into that pair Downtown at 100 St as they were heading for the 102 St stop. Watched them crossover from the westbound track to the eastbound track, taking the preferred routing. Came out from Horton's and...

Only 2 trains between Grey Nuns and Mill Woods TC. Exhilarating day for them no doubt! 2 trains parked at Muttart. Derails at the north end of the guideway, and crews (WPE most likely) working within the RoW blocking track at 100 St and 102 Ave. What looked like a WPE crew north of 38 Ave...

Is something broken Downtown? Watching trains this afternoon Downtown, they would crossover at 100 St and utilize the southbound platform at the 102 St. The next train would hold at Churchill until the train at 102 St departed and cleared 100 St. Trains were not utilizing the northbound...

While I believe there will be an overlap service period, I cannot imagine 5 minute peak service will be maintained on both the 73 and VLSE. Gotta wean the bus riders onto LRT, and with the issues and perception of TransEd, riders might not be too compelled to switch if the route 73 service is...

Beaumont Transit is moving from Heritage Valley to the Mill Woods Transit Centre for May 1. Basic history around Beaumont Transit: ETS operated when started, ran to Century Park. Suspended service due to Covid. During suspension contract up for renewal, opted to contract with PWT which allowed...

Transit Centres aren't some sort of automatic ridership booster for LRT ridership (as I think is being implied?). Re-routing routes into Blatchford for the sake of serving a new transit centre would be pointless. Existing buses in the area are already connected to LRT at either NAIT(8, 110x and...

First of all re: the opening date: The ETS May/ June sign up has full 73 service so it seems on the surface ETS fully expects to be still serving the VLSE LRT corridor for the next sign up, which would take us to the summer sign up. I am half expecting Edmonton to follow what Ottawa did and...

So, back to status quo then. I guess we'll see next week if/ when testing resumes.