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It’s relatively easy to build railways within a highway corridor if both are designed at the same time, but very challenging to retrofit...

odd that they repainted before rebuilding...wouldnt the latter cause damage to the paint when they start the heavy work? then they will...

electrification is another b and S.

Another metrolinx bait and switch exercise. They fooled us with the push for electrification that so far is leading to nowhere and their...

A nod to Nolan Xuereb who has another good piece on transit in Toronto asking whatever happened to the Oriole GO relocation...

From today’s NYT on Amtrak’s new sets. Click to enlarge.

From LinkedIn, confrimation that the F59's got more than a repaint.

yea but do the boring tunnels run track? overhead catenary? endless conduits? sure you can do smaller diameter tunnels when you only...

Explain?

well anything else other than the charger? No diesel alternatives from Alstom....

Screw buying leftovers from the yanks. Either buy new or we develop our own rolling stock. Maybe import an Alstom loco from Europe to be...

Maybe whomever is designing can take the bilevel design and make power cars out of them to finally get that dmu train going like it was...

Who knows how the sky train will perform here. Remember they are based on srt architecture which had lots of issues in the canadian winter

fair enough but the SRT which the current sky train architectural is based on was fraught with problems in the snow. vancouver is a much...

do they? When was the last time Alstom built EMUs let alone driverless EMUs? Sure i would like our industry stimulated but if that is at...