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Possibly one or more of the mini-stations are ready for a ribbon cutting. Or, there may be a planned "tour of the line" by the new...

I'm not sure why you'd excavate under nothing much but parking lots - which stretch much of that 1.5 km. VIA and the airport aren't the...

The two best TTC GM/CEOs of the last 2 generations, David Gunn and Andy Byford both had that habit, and staff were forever impressed...

It was especially myopic for the REM not to continue just that one last stop to Dorval Station for the VIA, Exo, and STM bus connections.

If I were VIA (and assuming the legacy services remain, at least for the decade of construction) I can't understand why Dorval is named...

DPU trains (remotes in middle & tail) are Ferrari's compared to a conventional train (all locomotives on head end). As engineer, it's...

Looks like there was a yard derailment

There are plenty of maintenance workers out there, working under CROR protection rules. But that is running maintenance - and likely...

There is a huge difference in the knowledge and training requirements for the average highway construction worker and forepersons versus...

PS While looking for the On/Off Corridor explanation, I did stumble across this image from the ML Board Meeting of May 19 2019, which...

LOL As usual, the most concise explanation of on-corridor vs off-corridor comes not from ML but from others interpreting their work...

What may happen is both sides are built out with five sections and then the center section is used to join the two sides

As a bit of an addendum to this.... Modern locos can develop in excess of 150,000 pounds of drawbar pull on the first knuckle - each...

Opinions vary on which locos perform better and in what service. It's interesting to note where certain models actually end up. The...

A break-in-two means the train has broken into two (or maybe more) sections, usually because a coupler knuckle breaks -or more...