Alstom is currently shipping out BiLevel cars for a number of US properties. Sounder, Coaster and ACE all have received cars in the past two years. Even though they are built in Canada, they do have enough US content in them to appear to meet the relevant "Buy America" provisions. Dan

And maybe this has been the problem all along, but people have been too afraid of calling CN out. But it does need to be challenged. CN has had to institute arcane and seeming illogical rules that run contrary to the other railroads solely to account for the corner that it's painted itself...

Paul, I love you, but you are very, very wrong here. This is CN's fault. It is a CN-specific problem, and so would I argue that it should be up to CN to at least in part figure a solution. CN's signal design uses a very low shunt voltage - considerably lower than any other railway in North...

You're right, the ROW is not 250 feet. But the clearance from abutment to abutment of the overpasses is what is being considered here, and that distance is far greater than the ROW's width. In fact, it looks as if the subway could be built entirely outside of CN's ROW there. Dan

Both documents are still viewable here: https://www.metrolinx.com/en/about-us/document-centre https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/Images/Metrolinx/Eglinton%20Crosstown%20LRT/DELAYED_Notification_Tunnel_Ventilation_Test_Laird.pdf...

They are not. Dan

Yeah, not an option at this time. Maybe if we get to the point of a full build-out of all of the corridors - 4 tracks or more - that could be something that happens. She was not. She was walking along the section past (away from) the stairs, and took a step towards to her left - and towards...

It depends on what the fix is. As an example, if there's a gauge issue replacing the rail may temporarily fix the issue until it gets worn or moves again. And the problem with a system as intensively used as a subway is that those things can happen in quite short order. Sometimes the problem...

The clearance underneath the 407 bridge is almost 250 feet. There is tonnes of room for a subway, and more tracks than CN would know what to do with. Dan

I think that's a bit simplistic. Maybe a better comparison is rubber tires on an asphalt road. Both of those are consumables, and can very quickly go from "okay" to "not okay" if the situation arises (think a pothole, or an a worn tire with the threads showing). They were popping up for...

Transport Canada uses a Challenger 604 for some of their navigational testing, and they land and take off at the airport regularly. Considering that, I suspect that quite a few of the smaller business jets could also use the existing facilities without lengthening the runway. Dan

Inspections are done daily or weekly or monthly, depending on the type and what they are looking for. What was okay a week ago may deteriorate and now require a slow order to prevent further damage until it can be fixed. Track is not some magical thing where you put it down and it stays the...

GO absolutely does not have 60 years of corridor work. They only took possession of their first bit of track in 1997, and it wasn't until the late-2000s that they actually embarked in any sort of track expansion project on their own lines. The other thing is that all of the work has and is...

There are quite a few slots available at Billy Bishop now. Porter curtailed a fair amount of its flights from there as part of its move to jets based at Pearson - and yet, as far as I can tell there has been absolutely zero increases in flights from Billy Bishop by Air Canada (or Westjet, or any...

Because the cost of doing that would dwarf the cost of extending the RESA even to its absolute maximum extant by many times over? Dan

And there was a condition in the Georgetown Expansion EA that every train through Weston was to be powered with a locomotive that meets EPA's Tier IV emissions standards or better. And yet, here we are. Dan

Depending on the system, this is incorrect. On CN's RTC2 system, it broadcasts a warning to the RTC at that panel if it detects that someone has overrun their authority. It also duplicates that warning on the RTC Chief's screen. The RTC will then attempt to contact that train, as well as any...

As usual, the history has been blurred somewhat by rose-coloured glasses and boosterism.... The speed listed in the post is wrong. The American TurboTrains did a similar speed test as the Canadian ones in the late 1960s, and managed to achieve 167mph. The Canadian ones, by virtue of being...

No. There is a guidance about it, and TC is really not happy about doing it. But they will not prevent it. Dan

40 years ago, sure. Not today though. For the record, the major centres - Toronto, Kingston, Quebec City - along the corridor could spare 2 or 3 or 4 buses. The minor ones - say, Belleville or Drummondville - could not. Their fleets and operator bases are that small. Dan