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Friendly reminder that this is the ALTO and not the VIA Rail thread, but I once was greeted at Paris Gare de l‘Est on a Friday afternoon...

Are they closer than they were 20 or even 10 years ago? You can look at the numbers yourself, they're in the public domain. But the...

That's the other side of demand management - historical trend monitoring. Fridays and Sundays are historically the busiest days of the...

I'm amused at how much faith you manage to put into technology. Dan

First off, welcome to the forum. In fairness, this was on you guys. Crosslinx had the same problem - their competing bidder estimated...

And that's precisely what their "storm service" call does. A lot of expresses get downgraded to locals, and fewer crossovers are used in...

A DMU is a locomotive, and is subject to all of the same regulatory requirements of one. Look up "FRA 92 day inspection". Dan

When everything is bespoke, the fewer times you need them to engineer a solution the cheaper it will be. If we could get more cities to...

So those rain drops falling from the sky and hitting me in the head at 8.30 were a figment of my imagination then? For the record, the...

The way Metrolinx and GO Transit have been run into the ground the past 7 years, I really doubt that. He just likes shiny new things to...

That is completely and totally incorrect. The line voltage - 1500Vdc in the case of Ottawa and 750Vdc in Toronto - has no bearing on...

And yet, there are a not-inconsequential number of stations in Europe that have done just what has been mooted here - separating the...

There is. Dan

First off, the last one was completed a couple of months ago. Second, while they may have been derived from each other they are quite...

This is correct. The MP54s are capable of operating on one or the other of the two prime movers - and in fact, they are designed to...