So assuming this goes to Union, I find the idea of using a brand new right-of-way out of Toronto pretty wacky. To me, the two alternative existing rail corridor routes (Kingston-Uxbridge / Bala-Don Branch-North Toronto) are suitable and feasible, albeit tedious to buy / expropriate slices of...

They're used coming out of Square One at Centre View / Mavis, as well as for the ION buses in Cambridge.

I second this. UP suffers from being saddled with providing intermediate stops more appropriate for GO.

I'm only making a point that there's enough about it that it makes sense to some people, even if not many of them are here on UT, and even if that still makes it wrong. Is that factoring in the Ontario Line though? I vaguely recall Relief Line projections greatly reducing overcrowding issues...

Sorry, showing up late to this thread, so don't take these as direct replies so much as springboards for my points. Counterpoint is that Yonge and Eglinton can be generally defined as midtown, and including St Clair. Summerhill is a grey boundary IMO. Summerhill has long been contemplated as a...

Nobody puts Baby in the corner.

Spotted 647 during my walk past Whitby RMF today.

Looking at CPTDB wiki, it's hard to say. 874-887 are a group of 14 F59PHI series, and the one on the last page is part of that series (877). But I don't know enough about locos to know if it's worth discounting the pre-1994 PH series (851-873) outside of what's noted as being sold to NCDOT...

Lots of suggested improvements to this route to serve Six Nations, but just re-quoting this for emphasis.

I gave a crack at it, you can view it here. This is a complete guess, maybe tomorrow we'll learn more.

I don't understand why they need to remove trees near a waterway, which should be avoided as a mitigation measure. I get that it's an urbanized channel, but isn't that all the more reason to protect what's there? Unless this is part of an overall restoration of that reach of the creek, I don't...

Thanks for posting Skyline, I hadn't known about this. To be clear, the TSB investigation is ongoing. Anyone who's read a TSB report knows how amazingly thorough it is in determining all factors in an incident, big and small. And while they don't assign fault or point fingers, they do lay out...

The replacement of bridges along Lakeshore West between Exhibition and Parkside was probably a bit impetus, it was critical to detour trains. Two or three if them did not have sufficient clearance for electrification, and combined with their deterioration, I think things came to a head.

This was going to be my guess, judging by the investigation area. If they were investigating a wye, the work are would...look like a wye.

I checked out the built form around the line and it's not shocking Northstar doesn't have big ridership. Lots of highways and stroads, single-family homes for miles.

Trying to tackle this best I can. Numbered them for ease. 1 - East of Heritage Road. Given the close proximity of the two creeks and groundwater issues the would likely stem from an underpass, I'd say it'd go over. 2 - It doesn't it's to the east. 3 and 4 - I have to come back to this, I...

I feel like if I spent an evening behind my home desktop in GIS, I could give you some ballparks on some of these. But as much as we like to yell at napkin plans, understanding that a railway ROW will have less tolerance for vertical grade change than a highway ROW, the horizontal curvature is...

You're still thinking too small. Maybe it's GO 3.0 but a provincial agency should be providing provincial service to more of the province IMO. Not trying to derail the thread here but just making that statement.

This was a draft from quite a few months ago. The red is rail lines, the tan is the 413, based on the EA drawings.

Just throwing out the cautionary note (for all) that service to London should not be given a Toronto frame. A ton of traffic on VIA trains was students and others between London and K-W/Kitchener.