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The document indicates that Dundas will have cycle tracks - tsk tsk. - Paul

It would be easy yes, but MacGyverish and not technically appropriate. Such telemetry does exist within some flavours of PTC.... but the whole point of PTC is to have a consistent and integrated set of inputs and interfaces that can be managed within a defined envelope. The down side, of course...

The industry has definitely become a boutique where only shipments that generate superior ROI are allowed. The industry generates an ROI of about 6% (last time I checked, and I may be a year or two out of date) A different paradigm that generated a utility grade return of only 3% but hauled a...

There may be a certain amount of abuse of accessible permits, but it's a very difficult thing to enforce. There are more important things that I would want parking enforcement officers spending their time on. - Paul

I'm not saying it's impossible, but some considerations that I would imagine CPKC would mull over - The route is slow speed, and the train is often close to hours by the time it gets to Agincourt or Havelock. Would the added stop risk a crew timing out? - Suppose the new spur is a simple one...

Be prepared for the quote to be quite breath-taking, if the railway does not want to serve that location. If the railway perceives the location as forcing extra switching moves, or delaying a train that needs to get to its destination in a hurry, they may quote very high. Or suggest an...

^There were two rounds of bidding..... the first round was reportedly won by an individual who took the whole lot as a package, only to discover that the cost of removal was beyond their budget and reneged on their bid. The rumour mill says that the same bidder won the second round and has lined...

The signals cut in will likely take longer than that. Consider this : When the two west facing dwarf signals are replaced by the three-light masts, the indications of the signals governing trains entering the station that lead to those new signals have to be reprogrammed and tested. And in...

Yes. Yes, indeed. - Paul

Amtrak.putting down a pile of cash on shunt devices https://media.amtrak.com/2024/10/amtrak-awarded-126m-in-federal-grants/ - Paul

We are in the wrong thread for this discussion (which has cycled ad nauseum already in the correct thread) so I won't belabour here. But the short answer to your question is - what's in it for either CPKC or CN? And what might befall CN or CPKC, or appear to them to be the likely result, in...

My recollection is that the Canadian Infrastructure Bank had a mandate to invest $35B in infrastructure. Not all that money has been spent, but the Bank's mandate may set a limit on how much money Ottawa has to play with. If the cost of high-end HSR turns out to be greater than what the CIB has...

It's entirely reasonable to ask if a new GO rail line along the 407 corridor (generally) could be built, and how useful would that be to our transit network. Just leave CN and CP tracks and routing out of the discussion, and the design, as any use of the existing CN tracks by either GO or CPKC...

^This is as good a place and time as any to repeat my question as to how ML can produce an annual report and MD&A bearing an auditor's stamp, when it has undisclosed project deficiencies so large that they must be material to ML's finances and health as an organization. One would think that...

Take your pick..... Oshawa (LSE), Hamilton (LSW), Mount Pleasant (Kitchener Line), Aurora (Barrie Line), Mount Joy (Stouffville Line) Depending on how old your kids are, I would try Union to Pickering, get off and take the pedestrian walkway to Pickering Town Center, then walk back again and...

The more telling question would be to ask ML, is the overall progress of the TBM within the planned timeframe and contingency, or has the maintenance plan tcd now causing a change to the planned end date for tunnelling? ML may be able to wordsmith the events and work tasks..... but either the...

You are driving the car to the dealer to get scheduled maintenance, but it breaks down en route. So now you are doing your planned maintenance..... on the side of the road. Nobody heard about an intervention shaft until the TBM suddenly stopped. I'd guess this is not part of the plan. - Paul

I'm not so sure that what the railways fear is an engineering problem (that design problem is already solved, as the image demonstrates). The problem is when someone points out that our railways haul unit trains of propane, and crude oil, and ethanol, and long cuts of many hazardous...

It may be what is being said on the street, and it may even be true, but I think you are missing the point. As sensational as that admission might be, no one accountable to the public announces that the sky is falling without having a plan to collect the pieces and glue them back up.. And I...

^ The only important missing details that I would have hoped would come to light a) what ML plans to do at Woodbine station on the Kitchener line, which stands in the way of putting the fourth track (and those expensive 401 tunnels, currently sitting idle) in service west of Humberview. Nor is...