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This alignment still has extremely tight curves. If we want to maintain any semblance of a comprable timeline, it probably makes more sense to promote the alignment that Metrolinx was going to use before going on their wild cost-cutting exercise that would also decimate the potential benefits of...

Yes, go back two pages.

What type of loco is a 6400? P42, F40 or Charger?

Except that it takes a very long time to load the Polar Bear Express in Cochrane, since it's a mixed train with freight. Extending the PBX to Porcupine would significantly increase the travel time from Timmins to Moosonee compared to the current situation with an express bus from Timmins to...

Yes exactly, and that's why I've been emphasizing that we need to make noise about changing GO Transit and Transport Canada policies to make it possible to operate railways efficiently as they do in Europe and Asia. Clearly the CROR is not the only way to operate railways safely given that the...

Ah thanks for that. I guess I'll just wait for the updated PDFs to come out before making this year's regional rail summary.

The missing weekend trips to Kitchener were luckily just a copy/paste error in the PDF, but the Lakeshore East and West service cuts seem to be real. We're 4 days from the next schedule change and the only Lakeshore timetables are the ones effective December 20th with service slashed to 1 train...

ETCS is not a "system" per se. Nor is it a particular technology. It's more like a set of standards. I'd say it's a signal system architecture, but even that's not really true, since the different ETCS Levels have significantly different architecture. ETCS can be anything from a rudimentary...

Well yeah we need to do both. But changing institutional requirements is something that needs to be done at the beginning of the planning process for resignalling, equipment procurement, track layouts etc. Which is happening right now. If we don't start pushing Transport Canada and GO Rail Ops...

Reducing from 2 people in the cab to 1 absolutely is a realistic answer because Metrolinx is installing ETCS on the lines it's electrifying. I'm not aware of any railway system with ETCS that has more than one person in the cab. This is a discussion we need to have if we want to be able to...

As part of the research for an upcoming video I measured the time it takes Spadina streetcars to cross the College intersection. Here are the measurements in case anyone is curious. It generally takes about 27 seconds to cross the intersection, which is an average speed of 9.3 km/h. That makes...

That raises an interesting question - why couldn't ONR pick it up from the TMC themselves? Surely they have trackage rights over the CN Bala sub and Metrolinx Bala sub, no?

Interesting. In that case, the timetable would look something like this: The southbound connection in Cochrane seems a bit tight given the potential for significant delays, so it looks like the Polar Bear Express timetable would ideally be shifted about a half hour earlier.

No, the numbers in the table already include a 10-minute transfer at Yorkdale and a 25-minute subway ride to Union. Whether you like it or not, 92% of the GTA's population (7.0 million out of 7.6 million) is located outside of downtown Toronto, so for the average GTA resident, Yorkdale or Hwy...

The existing bus schedules already provide a connection to Cochrane with the proposed train times, but they would need to reroute the Timmins-Cochrane bus to travel via Hwy 11 rather than Hwy 655 so it passes by the Porcupine station. Based on the timing of the PBX, it would be better if the...