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My understanding from people at Alstom is that the successor rights did have to be agreed to between the four parties - Metrolinx, Alstom, OnXpress and the Union. The same process was in place for the change from Alstom to Bombardier - even though Alstom bought Bombardier, there was a separate...

The circuit boards and other components in the H4s already are. Dan

It needs to. Any wording otherwise would exclude the use of EMUs - which by their very nature have "passenger occupied lead cars". Dan

Successor rights also need to be baked into the agreement between the originator and successor - Alstom and ONXpress. At this time, they have no such agreement. Dan

Last I checked, procurement programs for fleets don't equal operations and maintenance. Dan

GO regularly exceeds 90mph. And on top of that does so with a 12 car train, which is going to have a LOT more kinetic energy than one of the VIA sets even at 100mph. Dan

And what if you're not on Eglinton? Much like with routes 1, 2 and 4, there are surface stops identified along their routes that indicate where shuttle buses - when they are needed - will stop. There will also be such stops for Line 5. The stops have an orange flag at the top indicating it as...

I would normally agree with you on these kinds of things. But if the poster is who I think he is, he is someone who has operated at Bombardier/Alstom for quite some time and is very well connected with much of the staff there - and not just on the operations side, either. Yes, but...... There...

Then I stand very corrected. My apologies. And yet GO Transit does it at virtually the same speeds, so why do you figure that VIA should be any different? Dan

Yes. That depends. There are reasons why they sometimes do, and sometimes don't. AC doesn't. But AC has never owned any ships. They do run buses however, and run them between airports that they fly to. But you may want to ask why ONR operated competing bus, train and plane services...

I'm not sure that they did actually operate in service without the baggage cars. 4 or 5 F40s were modified in 2001 with the same type of coupler as the Ren cars, and were used to bring Corridor trainsets cars down from Thunder Bay as they were completed. And they did perform some network...

It's too bad that the OP didn't post a better photo, as the really interesting part of the stop was cropped out of it. Where the route flags are shown, at the top is now one for the route 5 shuttle bus. While I agree with running a paralleling route along the underground section of the line -...

The tracks were done years ago. So long ago in fact that they've started thinking about having to replace some of the earliest-installed double-slips due to wear and age. The issue is the signal system which needs to be upgraded in order for the enhanced speeds to take affect. This was supposed...

None that I can tell. Baggage does not generate enough revenue to cover its costs. That's why there are no baggage cars unless absolutely necessary. I think what you're thinking of is courier services. And again, no they don't. Dan

Some cars are set up that way. Some cars are set up to display like the legacy network. And a couple of other cars have other, one-off configurations. It appears that they are still testing what kind of display configuration they want to use for revenue service, and are using these different...

They can run hourly service as the line stands now, but half-hourly headways would require at least a couple of passing tracks where some don't currently exist. Dan

They seem to be big enough for the legacy network. Why wouldn't they be for Eglinton? Unlike most European cities, Toronto is built on a grid, and most of our routes follow straight lines and major roads. There is no reason why a bus or streetcar operating on Dundas - one of those few...

Because "5 Kennedy" doesn't actually indicate anything precise about the route, only it's destination. That's why they've gotten away from the old "501 Neville Park" destination signs on the streetcars and have added the route's name on the destination signs. And while it would be good practice...

With the way the signalling system is currently configured on the Kingston Sub, they can run 90mph trains every 5 minutes or so. That's enough capacity for the immediate future, but depending on which version of the plans they are going to be using they will start to bump into the limits of...

You know the world is not made of absolutes, right? I mean, I say that, and just about everyone here knows that. But the fact that it needs to be pointed out to you is pretty damning. Dan