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What are you defining as "reliable", here? Because what you consider reliable, may not necessarily be the same as my version of it, or...

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

Ran through a derail that was obscured by snow. It's at the west end of Mimico South. Dan

That's a big part of it, no doubt. But a large part of it was that they had to shoehorn the line into a corridor that was never...

There are scheduled windows during the middle of the days, evenings and weekends where certain tracks are place off-limits in order to...

Because of their location, platforms are now only allowed to be serviced by the regular corridor maintenance crews. So platform clearing...

The TTC isn't the one that is saying that the trains can't operate at full speed in the subway tunnels. Neither is the City. Dan

The answer is none-of-the-above - Crosslinx, being the maintainer for the line, is behind it. They are worried about their staffing...

You're comparing apples to oranges again. The Ontario Line's capacity specs are basically nonsensical. If you use the TTC's numbers -...

They do have special snow clearing rail equipment, and they're using them. But they also don't work particularly well on switches...

This is a temporary measure until the snow stops flying. It quite literally is a problem of aerodynamic forces affecting the loco...

Only if you don't have to pay for it. Which, as a taxpayer, we all do. Dan

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...

I believe that the overnight and weekend closures for the past couple of weeks have been due to work on the third track at Ossington...

They would often do the same on the rail side. And would take longer than promised to engineer it. But would then follow it up with an...