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[vic]

Distress Vigilance Sand by Vic Gedris, on Flickr


TTC Roncesvalles Carhouse: PCC Streetcar Sand by Vic Gedris, on Flickr

A couple of streetcar-sand related photos. First from a Flexity at Hillcrest, second from a PCC at Roncesvalles.

 

[smallspy]

Judging by the sand you see in the TTC Flexity streetcars sometimes, then they do still manually fill them some times.

Do the TTC cars have such a port?

The TTC's Flexities are filled the same way, from the same ports at the front and rear trucks. The sand you see inside is from loose piping allowing sand to escape, or from overfilling the cylinders.

Sorry but why are we pumping buses with sand ??

They're not filling buses with sand.

Streetcars and subways, on the other hand, use sand to increase traction.

Dan

 

[nfitz]

The TTC's Flexities are filled the same way, from the same ports at the front and rear trucks. The sand you see inside is from loose piping allowing sand to escape, or from overfilling the cylinders.

Ah, interesting. I was surprised the first time I saw it - but have only seen it a couple of times!

Of course you see sand on some bus routes - the 92 Woodbine South comes to mind ... but there's other reasons for that.

 

[Allandale25]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1133374628989157376

 

[Richard White]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1133374628989157376

It looks like it is progressing quickly at Kennedy but it still very much a construction site. Nowhere near as complete as it looks.

 

[Tuscani01]

Distress Vigilance Sand by Vic Gedris, on Flickr

What do the distress and vigilance buttons do?

The button positioning makes me visualize a driver using the distress button in a situation when someone is on the tracks, vigilance when someone may enter the tracks, and sand when they don't give a shit and just want people out of the way!

 

[nfitz]

It looks like it is progressing quickly at Kennedy but it still very much a construction site. Nowhere near as complete as it looks.

It does seem optimistic that it will be open in 27 months - which you'd think would mean they'd be running trains that far in less than 2 years.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

It does seem optimistic that it will be open in 27 months - which you'd think would mean they'd be running trains that far in less than 2 years.

apparently, they are supposed to open in September of 2021, at least that's what one of the people at the doors open event said.

 

[Aplus23]

It does seem optimistic that it will be open in 27 months - which you'd think would mean they'd be running trains that far in less than 2 years.

I can tell you that site didn't look like that a couple months ago so i'm actually surprised at how much progress has occurred since then.

I don't think they have as much ppl working on this overall project as we expect, because they get a lot done in spurts at various locations

 

[nfitz]

apparently, they are supposed to open in September of 2021, at least that's what one of the people at the doors open event said.

Metrolinx and IO have been saying September 2021 (27 months away) for years - I just have a hard time believing it, looking at the photos, the further east you get.

 

[vic]

What do the distress and vigilance buttons do?

The button positioning makes me visualize a driver using the distress button in a situation when someone is on the tracks, vigilance when someone may enter the tracks, and sand when they don't give a shit and just want people out of the way!

Heh. My guess is that Distress is the horn, and Vigilance is the ting-ting gong. But if someone knows for sure, I'd like to know too.

 

[Tuscani01]

Heh. My guess is that Distress is the horn, and Vigilance is the ting-ting gong. But if someone knows for sure, I'd like to know too.

That's not nearly as exciting as I thought - but sounds like the correct answer. I forgot there are dings and honks.

 

[KevinT]

Heh. My guess is that Distress is the horn, and Vigilance is the ting-ting gong. But if someone knows for sure, I'd like to know too.

I believe Vigilance is the proverbial 'dead man switch', operators have to push it periodically or the whole thing comes to a stop. Of course if that's the case then I'm surprised that they'd put it right beside the one marked distress...

 

[Steve X]

apparently, they are supposed to open in September of 2021, at least that's what one of the people at the doors open event said.

The contract says they need to deliver by that time. Of course they know the timeline is very tight. That can't be any mistakes. ML will never reveal any problems till the very end. Crosslinx sued ML last year and ML paid them an undisclosed amount to keep the timeline. Let's see how that goes.

 

[Coolstar]

I heard from a YouTube called Dash DAT who found out that they will repaint the flexity freedom vehicles. The grey is only temporary.