ssiguy2
Senior Member
Poland's PKP Cargo has just joined forces with JWC mining to develop and possibly build hydrogen powered freight trains. and they will be working with Alstom on the technology. When successful, GO commuter rail could also use freight as a freight train is a hell of a lot heavier than any commuter rail train.
This backed up by now the very successful trial of Hydrail EMU in Germany and now 13 hydrogen rail projects on the books worldwide seems to be solidifying Hydrail's future. Alstom has received orders for 50 Cordia Link hydrogen trains which can travel up 140 km/hr and travel 1000 km between refuels.
With the huge infrastructure savings of not electrifying the RER network, the fact that the trains could be on the RER system BEFORE the next provincial election, potential new Alstom plant, creating a new hydrogen industry, and Ford being able to put his own name on RER as opposed to just continuing a Wynne legacy, I am increasingly thinking Ford will go Hydrail. I am increasingly also thinking that this will be the best route for Toronto RER as electrification costs give Ford an excuse to push the project even further back. Hydrail is proving itself as hydrogen buses already have and perhaps it's time Toronto actually took a lead on a technology instead of regretting it 15 years from now when the system may still be running diesel pulled trains.
With Alstom already plying the technology and being heavily invested and researched in by Siemens, Talgo, Skoda, and CCRW {where they already have new hydrogen tram systems}, I think the writing is on the wall
This backed up by now the very successful trial of Hydrail EMU in Germany and now 13 hydrogen rail projects on the books worldwide seems to be solidifying Hydrail's future. Alstom has received orders for 50 Cordia Link hydrogen trains which can travel up 140 km/hr and travel 1000 km between refuels.
With the huge infrastructure savings of not electrifying the RER network, the fact that the trains could be on the RER system BEFORE the next provincial election, potential new Alstom plant, creating a new hydrogen industry, and Ford being able to put his own name on RER as opposed to just continuing a Wynne legacy, I am increasingly thinking Ford will go Hydrail. I am increasingly also thinking that this will be the best route for Toronto RER as electrification costs give Ford an excuse to push the project even further back. Hydrail is proving itself as hydrogen buses already have and perhaps it's time Toronto actually took a lead on a technology instead of regretting it 15 years from now when the system may still be running diesel pulled trains.
With Alstom already plying the technology and being heavily invested and researched in by Siemens, Talgo, Skoda, and CCRW {where they already have new hydrogen tram systems}, I think the writing is on the wall