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Did you happen to see the 9 or so refurbished cab cars parked at one of the Willowbrook tracks near the canopy?

Update: Found 9 refurbished cab cars in a line at one of the Willowbrook tracks

205 has now been delivered back to GO, also to note I did not see any other refurbished cab cars outside at Willowbrook (except 202)

To be fair, there isn't much to discuss about locomotive wise. The new diesel locomotive tender hasn't even been published yet, and we only have a small preview as to what the Alstom electrics will be.

I wasn't "judging" any condition. Just mentioning something I saw.

When I checked 204 a few days ago in that OOS line, I saw one of it's disc brakes were rusty. Noticed that a lot with out of service coaches, those brakes will get rusty very quickly if not moved often from what I've heard.

In an ironic twist of fate 202 placed in front of a Series 10 cab car at Willowbrook

Since GO seems to be taking delivery of the final ones quite quickly now (201 was delivered less than a month ago), and there are only a very few left to still be delivered back to GO, I’d expect soon we will see GO finally start using them in some sort of fashion. Though who knows

GO 205 is being delivered back to Toronto on CN A450 today. That leaves only 3 (200, 210, and 213) refurbished cab cars to be delivered back to Toronto.

Are you saying this current order will replace some of the current locomotives?

Speaking of, wonder if/when we'll see the MP40s receive refurbishment. The first 27 or so are approaching the 20 year mark soon, so I feel refurbishment may be on the way soon.

Most of the MP40s seem to be fairly sooty nowadays. I don't remember it being this bad of a problem though in the past, since COVID I'd say the units have become more dirty.

Odd. Wonder what could need repairing since afaik the car hasn't been used on any in service trains.

Nah, personally I like the stripe just going straight throughout the coach. Also you turned the cab cars double ended lol, with cabs on both sides

Update on the conga line situation

Is that an active consist or a storage line?

Also I'm guessing since the initial order of locos has been expanded from 13 to 27, and the tender still hasn't been decided, we probably won't be seeing any locos delivered to GO in September of this year as was initially reported.

Right now, barely any info. Only thing I really know is that the 9 Series 7 cab cars (242 - 250) have been sent plus like 10 or more coaches, nothing has been delivered back to GO. Seems MX is more interested now in just just repainting the Series 7 cars in house (several of the 25xx and 26xx...

I just wonder when we will finally see one in active service again. Minus the two seemingly midset test runs 206 had on February 16th and May 1st of 2023, none have run on any sort of train. And 201 now makes 11 that have been delivered back to GO.