Venture trainset at Rouge Hill GO Station last week. It's a bit funny, I let two LRC trains pass without photographing them while waiting for this one. Given their eventual retirement, I probably should have been more motivated to catch them. Oh well.
This could go in one of the VIA threads, but I thought it might have more general interest so it’s here. I got a close up look at a new Siemens trainsets this week, and I was fascinated by the way the underfloor is designed…. It has a rack with holes in it, just like adjustable shelving…. And all the underfloor appliances are hung from this with pins that fit into the rack, almosst Ikea style.
The idea presumably is that anything needing heavy maintenance can be easily removed and replaced, and if modifications happen down the road, it’s easy to rearrange the “rack”.
Pretty clever compared to the bolting and welding that steam era equipment demands.
