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4429 has reenter service on 505 after arriving sept 16, 64 days ago
CAF is now the 4th manufacture to supply LRV's to Canada and may show up in Toronto One Day.
Calgary AB: City chooses Spanish firm to supply cars for the Green Line
I think the TTC had stainless steel frames for them which is one of the reasons for the poor welding from the Mexico plants. Welding stainless steel requires a very sp[ecific technique called a full penetration weld and what was happening in Mexico was that as soon as someone learned how to do it they went somewhere else to do it so they kept having to teach new people how to do it. The TTC has had steel frames on everything since they had buses with aluminum frames rust prematurely.Not sure if TTC will find the same problems with BBD cars like Minneapolis has with not only BBD cars, but Siemens cars as well. Rust does happen with all the salt that put on the roads during the winter months. BBD car frames were made in Mexico that had the same issues as the first 66 cars TTC got, but used rivets to fix the issue since Minneapolis lack the knowledge of TTC at the time.
Except the pic further down looks like a Siemens S200 that’s currently in use on the Ctrain. The CAF Urbos looks like a rounder version of the Citadis. Rode the Urbos in Budapest and Kaohsiung, Taiwan; remember feeling they felt wider than the TTC Flexitys. The Kaohsiung one also operates on tracks covered with grass and catenary-free, basically everything I wish we had in Toronto.Lol, the picture at the top of the article looks an awful lot like a Flexity. I'm guessing it's a stock image from earlier Green Line materials produced before they'd made the vendor choice. The pic further down is different...
The cost to change track gauge is minimal compared to the contract size. Besides, they built and tested some of the TTC Flexitys in Kingston already. That implies that there is TTC gauge there.Considering that only Thunder bay has TTC track gauge and GO transit BI levels are built there it would be safe to assume that facility would stay.
From previous posts, to build cars with varying track gauges is not a problem and the far better reason to assume that the facility will remain in TB is that it provides good local jobs and will thus get more than its 'fair share' of orders from 'governmental organizations' and, one hopes, others.Considering that only Thunder bay has TTC track gauge and GO transit BI levels are built there it would be safe to assume that facility would stay.
A streetcar or subway car is just as complex as any EMU. And they've built those at Thunder Bay.But can Thunder Bay even handle an EMU, if that's what they go with? I suppose they could built the power cars in La Pocatière or something.
Good to hear! I wasn't sure how easily it would scale up.A streetcar or subway car is just as complex as any EMU. And they've built those at Thunder Bay.