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This is absolutely not true. They are allowed something like 25% of the seats for standees on any run operating on a highway - none upstairs on a double-decker. And they do this all the time.
The open baggage compartments are a surprise to me.
They already patched the hole in the prime mover?
One thing I have been turning over in my head is how well a 2700hp QSK60 fits in an F59PH, if GO is seriously considering removing some to make way for battery packs.
Except there are guys walking in freight yards all the time. From the mainline crews who pull the trains in, to the yard conductors who build the trains and the car department that pre-trips the them. Those who have only even been observers may not mind them, but as someone who used to actually work in places like that I greatly disliked them due to how sore my feet used to get walking on the ballast and stepping over weeds all day long feeling like I was in a scene from the Walking Dead, which is why it was such a nice reprieve to finally work in a properly maintained and well kept yard instead.
Exactly. Plus not having to worry about tripping over weeds and having much of the yard paved as opposed to having little or none is a real foot saver!
To follow up further on this, why don't I just show you:
The conversation dates back several months so I might have missed something, but for clarity, are you arguing that all rail yards, MacMillan, Agincourt, Symington, Moosonee, etc. should be paved (asphalt/concrete)?Except there are guys walking in freight yards all the time. From the mainline crews who pull the trains in, to the yard conductors who build the trains and the car department that pre-trips the them. Those who have only even been observers may not mind them, but as someone who used to actually work in places like that I greatly disliked them due to how sore my feet used to get walking on the ballast and stepping over weeds all day long feeling like I was in a scene from the Walking Dead, which is why it was such a nice reprieve to finally work in a properly maintained and well kept yard instead.
Exactly. Plus not having to worry about tripping over weeds and having much of the yard paved as opposed to having little or none is a real foot saver!
To follow up further on this, why don't I just show you:
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Now THAT'S what I call a proper train yard(s).
I had meant to upload the pictures of Willowbrook earlier for comparison’s sake but due to a heavy workload I only got around to it recently.
The prime movers that the units were shipped with - if any still had them - have been damaged in such a way that they can not possibly be made operable again. That's part of the terms of the funding program for their replacements.
It's an interesting idea. I don't know what the mounting locations are on a QSK or how it could interface with the EMD alternator, if it is at all possible.
I’m not sure that’s a requirement. GO Transit’s MCIs from the 80s had open parcel racks. Greyhound Canada’s newer MCIs that they bought new actually had open parcel racks too.
Certainly I remember some open compartments on some vehicles, but from what I remember (at least in Greyhound's case) some of those vehicles were newer American coaches that were transferred to Greyhound Canada.
I have seen GO, Greyhound and other intercity buses open the capartment doors at the botton of the bus on bothsides of them in NA. Even seen this in Europe as well on an articulate double deck coach bus.
I'm talking about the overhead inner baggage compartment, not the luggage compartment on the underside of coaches.
