Recent content by Willybru21

Well the air conditioning is siphoned through the coach, though those little vents you see above the lights on every level. I think it’s safe to assume air conditioning was also vented into the cab, but couldn’t be controlled separately from the rest of the coach like what was previously mentioned.

Locomotives always face east, and cabs west at Union

I would love Dairy Queen but only if they brought the funnel cakes back

Continuing the topic of food/restaurants at Union, what would everyone here like to see open? I would personally love a Mary Browns or Harvey’s

One of those old abandoned display cases in the VIA concourse sees life again! A art display showing VIA’s major destinations was added:

I’m glad some schedules are finally out, some of you may have seen this in the GO electrification thread, but here’s a comparison I made between the 2018 Metrolinx FBC for GO Expansion, and the OnCorr development phase schedules from 2023:

This was only directed at people who don’t work on the trains. Engineers conductors and CSA’s are getting transferred over, but managers, supervisors, and other office workers aren’t, so they were told to apply for the same positions at OnXpress before they’re taken by other people.

You’re correct, the travel time for the new express UP train is 23 minutes

The 3D models they created of Union’s future layout has a normal catenary pole in it:

Internal schedules show 23 minutes, but there’s a chance that’s padded as stuff tends to be on GO; we’ll see when service begins

In the document linked above the positions of where each train will board is marked down. Obviously stuff can change though as OnCorr is still in development

Full quality version:

No worries tagging isn’t necessary! I regret not making the disclaimers larger, as people are likely to read past all of them

It’s really something when I have to add 4 disclaimers…