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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

Megaton327 said:
It will involve a mix of trains. Peak service will mostly run with the existing BiLevel coaches pulled by electric locomotives, with off-peak/counter-peak mostly run by 4/8/12 car EMUs. Some service will not be electrified and will require use of the existing bilevels with diesel locomotives.
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It's my understanding that EMUs will only run to Bramalea/Aurora/Stoufville.

The plan is for peak & longer hauls will still be served by electric-loco or dual-mode driven Bombardier BiLevels.
 
mdrejhon said:
It's my understanding that EMUs will only run to Bramalea/Aurora/Stoufville.

The plan is for peak & longer hauls will still be served by electric-loco or dual-mode driven Bombardier BiLevels.
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Yes. It will be a EMU system to Aurora/Bramalea/Unionville. Mt Pleasant/Barrie/Mt Joy will still get bi levels, hopefully Milton and Richmond Hill do too.

Oshawa and Burlington also will get EMUs I believe and Hamilton (all day service) and bowmanville (express -rush hour) will maintain bi levels.
 
Why don't they just put up some asphalt and call it a day? How dare they think about building these substantial stations?
 
denfromoakvillemilton said:
Oshawa and Burlington also will get EMUs I believe and Hamilton (all day service) and bowmanville (express -rush hour) will maintain bi levels.
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Not at first. Bramalea/Aurora/Stoufville is supposed to get them first, due to stop spacing.

One of the appendixes for the RER Business Plan documents proposed the use of electric-loco driven BiLevels on the Lakeshore Line for 15-min RER. This was the $13.5bn "Optimized" plan, not the $19bn "Full" plan.

...Though things could change in a hurry, depending on political winds.
 
TOareaFan said:
yep...i get that...but all of those renders show bilevels with diesel locomotives....I just find it funny.
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I think that because they haven't 100% secured a contract with a manufacturer for EMU's or gotten 100% approval to even run non-fra EMUs they don't want to put the cart before the horse.
 
DonValleyRainbow said:
Doesn't stop the Ontario government from using graphics of EMUs in their pressers.
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They could always buy FRA-compliant EMUs. They just don't know the exact model yet, for obvious reasons.

Besides, its just that, a marketing item. Most people don't care about what the train is exactly, as long as it's a train that comes every 15 minutes. The graphics are clearly just illustrative.

It's sort of like advertising increased garbage pickup days or something, and showing a graphic of a garbage truck that is not the exact kind the city actually uses. Its not the point of the presser to announce a new garbage truck, the picture is there simply to illustrate the topic at hand.
 
innsertnamehere said:
It's sort of like advertising increased garbage pickup days or something, and showing a graphic of a garbage truck that is not the exact kind the city actually uses. Its not the point of the presser to announce a new garbage truck, the picture is there simply to illustrate the topic at hand.
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Yes, marketing.

Except it is a pictogram one of the actual EMU candidates, the Stadler KISS which is also already mentioned in some Metrolinx documents, including graphs, showing as a typical EMU for cost projections. That's much more elaborate/planned than the garbage truck clipart.

Stadler KISS, used in the pictograms, is now available under the FRA Alternative Rules, and will be used by Caltrain during their electrification.
 
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