Those are the other two that I am aware of, yes. It strikes me that under Birchmount on the BD would have also been a logical place to leave a potential station location, but the line profile doesn't indicate that. Dan

I can't believe this needs to be spelled out to you, but.... CN also owns the Kingston Sub. In order to allow for more VIA Rail service on it, the Federal Government had to pay CN to provide improvements to it. The railroads will only provide enough maintenance and capacity on a line to serve...

It definitely predates the Turbo. During the Great Depression, CN and CP were allowed to pool their services between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal as a cost saving measure. This arrangement was kept until the early 1960s - I think 1962 was the exact year that the arrangement ended. Dan

But it also required a location to have been planned during the construction of the line - and to the best of my knowledge, there are only 2 other locations in the system that have had this planned for. It doesn't appear that a future station could be built at or east of Strachan considering...

The answer to your question may be in your response. For any number of different reasons, North America is considered more litigious - and therefore, more cautious - about a lot of things. And it certainly stands to reason that something has happened in the past that has resulted in this...

There are lots and lots of departure boards in Union. The fact that there are none in one specific location doesn't take away from the multitudes located in more important locations. Dan

Please feel free to use that argument on them, but be prepared to be laughed out the door afterwards. Dan

In theory, sure. And especially when compared to a standard, straight release system like used on freight trains. But the system being used - and so far, only tested by GO - has not been liked by crews thus far mainly because it has not been able to release any faster or more reliably than...

As I understand it, the countdown starts upon the issuance of substantial completion, followed by full operation of the line for at least 2 board periods. Because of how the TTC's board periods are set up, this may be longer than 3 months. I don't know the specifics of the contract, so I don't...

TTC drivers who have chosen to move over to the Crosstown (and Finch West) are beginning to get their training dates. This time, the scheduled starting dates for training are for mid-August and early September. Dan

That is a plan to go with conversion to Cat5 from the 27pin MU/Com, but how do you figure that it would improve braking, exactly? The trains already have graduated release and blended braking. Dan

This is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, Hawker Siddeley designed an EMU based on the BiLevel (although with some design differences to fit all of the additional equipment necessary to make them so). But the BiLevel coaches as built for GO were not designed to be converted to EMUs. My understanding of...

I didn't say that. Are you really that daft? This is where the historical community has a problem. There are finite resources with which they can expend to save and store equipment. One school of thought is to save everything, and hope that people after can do something with it. This...

As pointed out, I don't think that it's elevation is a problem. But the fact that they've put the switch back on the truck, have not tied the rails up to each other and clipped them to the ties tells me that there is something wrong there, and so I wonder if the drain's location interferes with...

Passenger locos regularly go for about $10mil / copy and more. $600mil should therefore net someone about 50 locos. And to be completely honest, I can't think of a single passenger carrier in North America who is in the market for a fleet that big at the moment. (There was Amtrak, but they're...

My point was made as there are quite a few people who seem to continually hold up Brightline as some sort of panacea to what ills VIA. That it can be done by the private sector there, so it can be done here too. I'm simply pointing out that Brightline is not nearly as "private" as they think. Dan

Congratulations for digging up something I wrote 16 years ago, but you've missed the point. The point is not what my or the historical community's opinion is of a specific piece of rolling stock. The problem is with your contention that a particular piece isn't worth preserving simply because...

I'm not sure how you can think that 3 people entering or leaving at once isn't much more significant than 2 people entering or leaving at once, but the TTC seems to have figured otherwise and I'm inclined to believe them. Dan

But there is. Brightline is advertised and is loudly branded as a "private operation". The one line that it owns - as opposed to the line that it shares - was built using various highway grants, easements, tax deferrals, etc. in spite of that fact. VIA is not private, and has never, ever tried...

Your opinion is noted, and not universally shared with the historical community. Dan