Bojaxs
Active Member
You're crazy.Call me crazy but I really like the spiderweb of wires that comes with our streetcars.![]()
You're crazy.Call me crazy but I really like the spiderweb of wires that comes with our streetcars.![]()
Call me crazy but I really like the spiderweb of wires that comes with our streetcars.![]()
Call me crazy but I really like the spiderweb of wires that comes with our streetcars.![]()
I'm OK with the downtown streetcar network, it's the unnecessarily severe OCS on the new LRT lines that troubles me. Big honking pillars.
Some of them are 50+ feet from the tracksI presume engineering spec'd them to withstand a derailed LRV or snowplow collision.
If a pole is 50 feet from the tracks it is probably NOT connected to streetcar power. Hydro and the City also love big poles.Some of them are 50+ feet from the tracks
Bombardier had a wireless power technology, Primove. They sold it.Ugh! I wish the TTC didn't purchase all these new streetcars and instead looked at some kind of battery powered streetcars. Get rid of all this nasty overhead wiring. The intersection looked so much better without it.
It's not necessarily because of that. These poles have to support more weight from the addition of the heavier messenger (the wires that carry the bulk of the traction power for the contact wire between substations) wires and resist the tension forces that the wires are under as well.I presume engineering spec'd them to withstand a derailed LRV or snowplow collision.