omg is it on a truck or is it being shipped by rail
super excited
last week of november
Ok now, I want to do a little logical analysis of this situation..
Dun get your hope up too much...
First of all it seems like, by the way you're commenting, that you are almost perceiving the new TR trains as a singular object, and as if the images posted yesterday are 'it' and that 'it' is now being shipped. So lets really keep in mind that there will be quite a few trainsets to be shipped.
We already know that one of them is in Kingston for testing (is it Kingston? can't remember but its not so relevant), the comment from (Brad Ross?) that they are expecting delivery at the end of November indicates to me that testing was successful, and completed. The fact that the one at bombardier appears to have been shipped TODAY south probably means its on the way to Kingston, I imagine they will all be run through testing there, en route to Toronto.
Something tells me that its somewhat likely, in consideration of these events, that the first TR to be delivered to Toronto could be on the rails as we speak, Though not the one you saw in the images from yesterday. That also means its not traveling as far, it shouldn't take more than a day to get here. Delivery is almost certainly going to be by rail to avoid decoupling the cars, which is much more difficult than with previous unarticulated H's and T's. This makes it certain delivery going to greenwood.
Here's the big part. This train could already be here, to be quite honest, so if anyone is near greenwood, take a peek... If its not here now, it could be delivered tomorrow, its a REAL possibility. However, lets now take into consideration that the tracks that will bring the delivery also serves and active GO train line. Due to the nature of the delivery, it will likely be pretty disruptive to that line, which normally operates at quite high speed. This would certainly impose a slow-speed order on this section, at the very least. So if there seems to be a delayed schedule on these lines, that's something to watch. However this fact could also mean delivery is forced for the weekend, probably Sunday.
The test track facility cannot handle more than one train at a time, if this new train from thunder bay has been shipped, the one currently at the test track must go somewhere, and it has only one place to go.
Like I said before.. Any day now, keep those eyes on greenwood.