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Metroscapes
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Nobody puts Baby in the corner.
dowlingm
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More like Oddjob
drum118
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generalcanada
Senior Member
More than 300 GO Train cars to be refurbished
Metrolinx is working with northern partners to upgrade part of the GO Train fleet.
www.metrolinx.com
NVM I see the date on the article now from january
T3G
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Question: how often are coaches cycled in and out of consists?
crs1026
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smallspy
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There are mandatory tests that are required to be done with the coach on its own. I believe they happen every 3 or 6 months - I can't honestly recall the interval, but it is one of those two.
But as Paul correctly points out, ultimately you want to do it as little as possible. This is why they use "Progressive Maintenance" bays and service whole trainsets as much as they can.
Dan
Allandale25
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cplchanb
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Are these cars also getting the new green seats?
WB62
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WB62
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Never thought to post these here until now! Here are a few older concepts for GO that might be of interest!
High-floor Bi-Levels concept by Hawker Siddeley:
GO wasn’t interested in high floor boarding, this was just a concept made by the manufacturer.
Colourised version:
The engine seen in the images above appears to be Hawker Siddeleys Futura engine, I don’t think it was ever built:
Interior:
The screen on the right is a seat occupancy screen, which would display which seats on the upper or lower level were taken.
Exterior and interior concept art of the low-floor Bi-Level:
Diagram made by Hawker Siddeley showing the modular aspect of the Bi-Level design:
There was a 4th module not shown in this diagram that would have replaced the passenger areas with engines to make the coach a multiple unit, which was never ordered by any agency.
Not sure what this engine was called, I think F60PH? Could be wrong on that:
High-floor Bi-Levels concept by Hawker Siddeley:
GO wasn’t interested in high floor boarding, this was just a concept made by the manufacturer.
Colourised version:
The engine seen in the images above appears to be Hawker Siddeleys Futura engine, I don’t think it was ever built:
Interior:
The screen on the right is a seat occupancy screen, which would display which seats on the upper or lower level were taken.
Exterior and interior concept art of the low-floor Bi-Level:
Diagram made by Hawker Siddeley showing the modular aspect of the Bi-Level design:
There was a 4th module not shown in this diagram that would have replaced the passenger areas with engines to make the coach a multiple unit, which was never ordered by any agency.
Not sure what this engine was called, I think F60PH? Could be wrong on that:
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Bordercollie
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There was an EMU version also.
WB62
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I covered it!
cplchanb
Senior Member
Its a real shame that toronto never had the spine nor the resources to think bigger with this... high floor modular cars would've been such a future proof concept that they can so easily convert to MU today