Voltz
Senior Member
If there is a cab at both ends it is probably on the right side at each end, so you would not see the window for it on both ends on each side.
If there is a cab at both ends it is probably on the right side at each end, so you would not see the window for it on both ends on each side.
I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think so.
The one cab end we have seen has clearly shown front windows on both sides of the centre gangway and assorted other paraphernalia like striping and road numbers and lights and the like. If those features were on both ends of each car, I think they would be visible from this angle. Instead it looks like a blank silver metal wall:
This photo someone snapped of a C-car being delivered makes it appear like there is a cab only at one end:
The back-and-forth consisted of a UPX set on "T4" and a 10-2 GO set on "T3". The whole thing was to test how the UPX equipment behaves in the underpass when meeting a GO train at full speed. Both the GO and UPX trains were wired with some high tech camera/sensor gadgetry. They basically lined up on either side of the underpass, and on command, they accelerated at each other and met inside the underpass. The movements would not have done much to settle the track structure west of the Etobicoke North GO station.
Does that mean they were checking how air turbulence from a GO train might buffet the much smaller UP train in an enclosed space?
Yes. I don't know if the concern is generic to all the tunnels, or just with that one location.
- Paul
SourceGTS Project said:Reminder: UP Express Service Testing Continues With Overnight Trials Beginning March 30
What we are doing
How this will affect you
- Beginning March 30, UP Express trains will be operating intermittently overnight to get ready for service launch.
- Trains will be tested every 15 minutes along the corridor from Union Station to Pearson Airport from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m.
- Testing will take place Monday to Friday and will be intermittent pending weather and testing conditions.
- There will be no testing on Good Friday, April 3.
- Following the overnight service testing, daytime simulated service testing begins April 13.
- As with the overnight service testing, trains will run every 15 minutes from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday from Union Station to Pearson Airport.
- Residents may hear the trains operating in the rail corridor.
- When UP Express daytime weekday service testing begins on April 13, any remaining GTS construction (e.g. noise walls) will be limited to occasional evenings and weekends.
- Reminder that train time is any time so please be safe and remember not to trespass onto the rail tracks
Thank you for your continued patience as we prepare for the launch of the UP Express.