Krypto98
Active Member
I go on the route all the time on the freight trains but it's so cool seeing it from a passenger perspective
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turbanplanner
Senior Member
Maybe you're not allowed to answer this haha but I'm guessing there isn't much phone signal? I had 1 bar most of the trip when I was along it.
I'm going to render the footage and upload the trip from union to langstaff in a few days
smallspy
Senior Member
There's nowhere along that stretch that is anything approaching remote. Unless your carrier has spectacularly bad coverage along there (and therefore, along the north side of Steeles) you should have not had any cell service issues.
Dan
turbanplanner
Senior Member
I meant more along the parts that are away from the cities
turbanplanner
Senior Member
Took some photos on the RH line, the trains were incredibly slow, I checked the alerts before my trip and there was nothing about the speed restrictions until much later in the day :/ Nearly doubled the trip tip for me.
Crazy to think it was all under water yesterday!
Crazy to think it was all under water yesterday!
GOTransitFan206
New Member
Saw a video of water flowing down some stairs inside Union Station because of a wave caused by a train pulling in. Might short the electrical systems if it gets high enough.
Hopefully a train dosen't get stuck in the Don Valley (flashback to 7/19/2013) again!
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Krypto98
Active Member
I'm guessing maybe the hydro lines could potentially affect cell coverage and cause interference but cell coverage is usually good in the area. I've had issues on the 407 in the area going under hydro lines.
WB62
Senior Member
Are you sure it wasn’t the video of the water flowing down the moat stairs? I don’t remember any GO parts of Union getting seriously flooded, only city of Toronto parts
turbanplanner
Senior Member
I remember seeing photos of water in the foodcourt
WB62
Senior Member
That’s not a Metrolinx area but there’s nowhere else that water could’ve come from but up (unless it flowed in from the Teamway), so I guess parts of the concourses did flood
drum118
Superstar
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With the amount of water flowing down the stairs, it had to go into Union Station as well the Team Way. As soon as someone opens a door to Union, water rushes in. There are videos and photographs floating around showing water in Union
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Wabtec earnings surge on higher freight and transit revenue
Wonder if this is GO? We’ve seen plenty of indications that they’re going to order more diesels. I would also be surprised if a freight railway ordered Tier 4s. They’ve stayed away from them like the plague due to longevity issues, making me think this order was a passenger railway.
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Wonder if Wabtec would want to use this order to refresh the loco design to better compete with Siemens who is absolutely dominating the market. Until now (maybe), that model isn’t officially offered anymore.
cplchanb
Senior Member
depends on if they see it as a worthy investment. the charger has essentially monopolised the market so they need to see a positive RoI before they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on developing a new loco.
smallspy
Senior Member
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 already getting large numbers of units from Siemens.)
Freight locos are much cheaper as they usually get built en masse to the (more-or-less) same specs. It's been a while since I followed the market, but I wouldn't be surprised if the current figure is about $4mil / unit - which would thus indicate an order for about 150 locos. And there are definitely freight railroads in North America who could easily absorb such an order without difficulty.
Dan