GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

[Allandale25]

 

[sixrings]

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“Situation” makes it sound negative. Who doesn’t love a train horn?!!!

 

[Undead]

Presumably "situation" refers to the near miss? @crs1026 @smallspy any details you can share?

 

[crs1026]

Presumably "situation" refers to the near miss? @crs1026 @smallspy any details you can share?

I don't have any incidents to report, but my generic answer would be, "Which one?"

Busy crossing on curve with poor sight lines, vs many nearby residences.

- Paul

 

[crs1026]

I would add, there's a lot of wisdom applicable here from the Vision Zero road safety philosophy..... namely, that motorists draw a lot of inferences from road configuration, and this determines how they drive.
In the case of Eureka, the crossing has been heavily camouflaged in the interest of making it look like an insignificant branch line crossing that has only a few tiny slow trains that stop easily and don't interfere with the tony and leafy residential surroundings. Which is very much at odds with the reality - ie it's a heavily trafficed mainline crossing that may soon see 15 minute 2WAD headways run by full size heavy trains that are running at full permissible track speed (albeit thru a restrictive curve).
If I were the regulator, I would be cutting back bushes and doing other thing that might look stark and nasty but would make the crossing more intimidating to motorists.
And if I were a GO engineer, I would be leaning on the horn for every moving object and squirrel I encounter, whistle ban or not.

- Paûl

 

[reaperexpress]

Here's my annual Canadian Regional Rail Summary. This is the 10th year I've made these summaries so I've also analysed the trends over that period.

I've now eliminated all ads on my blog so I'm just going to link it rather than quoting it:
https://ontariotrafficman.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/canadian-regional-rail-summary-2024/

Some notable graphics:

 

[Allandale25]

^ Always a must-read. Great edition as always, @reaperexpress

 

[SkylineHorizons]

Absolute devastation on a GO train, completely smashed in window ☠ Accidentally posted in the wrong thread, this is definitely not construction work, unless 'deconstructed' counts.

Luckily no was sitting that seat or they likely would have been killed.

 

[canarob]

What happened?

 

[T3G]

I would assume a collision of some sort, because the grey cabinet on the left of the photos is the entrance to the cab on the CEM coaches. But there's nothing in the news about the GO train, so I'm stumped.

 

[WB62]

What happened?

The train hit a broken crossing gate before Milton GO at a significant speed:

 

[canarob]

Wow, new fear unlocked

 

[Sandpit]

The train hit a broken crossing gate before Milton GO at a significant speed:

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I assume no one was sitting there, otherwise…

 

[Allandale25]

I would have to assume a car or truck hit the gate, knocked it out of position, and then the train hit it? I saw that happen once before.

 

[WB62]

I assume no one was sitting there, otherwise…

Nobody was there