Richard White
Senior Member
Btw 200MPH freight for class 9. Id love to see what that looks like haha.
I presume something like this?
Btw 200MPH freight for class 9. Id love to see what that looks like haha.
Which now I'm curious why they changed the Weston to be 80 passenger and 25 freight? Is it the amount of intermediate signals? The UP Platforms? Or the grades on the weston and west toronto tunnel?50MPH for freight does not mean 50MPH for passenger trains.
They have different speed limits based upon track class
Track Classification Freight Passenger Section Excepted Track 10 mph Not Allowed 49 CFR § 213.4 Class 1 Track 10 mph 15 mph 49 CFR § 213.9 Class 2 Track 25 mph 30 mph 49 CFR § 213.9 Class 3 Track 40 mph 60 mph 49 CFR § 213.9 Class 4 Track 60 mph 80 mph 49 CFR § 213.9 Class 5 Track 80 mph 90 mph 49 CFR § 213.9 Class 6 Track 110 mph 110 mph 49 CFR § 213.307 Class 7 Track 125 mph 125 mph 49 CFR § 213.307 Class 8 Track 160 mph 160 mph 49 CFR § 213.307 Class 9 Track 200 mph 200 mph 49 CFR § 213.307
This is for the FRA, but TC follows it closely.
Btw 200MPH freight for class 9. Id love to see what that looks like haha.
Which now I'm curious why they changed the Weston to be 80 passenger and 25 freight? Is it the amount of intermediate signals? The UP Platforms? Or the grades on the weston and west toronto tunnel?
Which now I'm curious why they changed the Weston to be 80 passenger and 25 freight? Is it the amount of intermediate signals? The UP Platforms? Or the grades on the weston and west toronto tunnel?
Yeah, would probably save us 5 minutes at the most for the CP transfer only to be blocked at CN Humber by higher priority 1xx and 3xx trains... I've waited 3 hours there beforeLikely all of the above, and more.
Freight is mostly shuffling roadswitchers that travel short distances, and one transfer a day to CP which follows a single routing through the Weston tunnel and takes a slow path onto CP . No need for freight to travel faster, and why add to maintenance costs.
- Paul
A small part of it is the signal progression and sighting.Which now I'm curious why they changed the Weston to be 80 passenger and 25 freight? Is it the amount of intermediate signals? The UP Platforms? Or the grades on the weston and west toronto tunnel?
90% of the time to the CP transfer we use the lighter low horsepower engines plus usually its not more than 50 cars we are sending over or bringing back... logically just speed restrict heavy axle loads. But it's their track so they call the shots.But a large part of it is that Metrolinx is afraid that the big, bad freight trains will damage their track. Seriously.
Would you mind the using 24h clock? I had to reread this several times before I figured out what the pattern is you're describing.So I have noticed something occurring, trains no longer seem to be following old route patterns.
For example, the 5:08 train to Allandale used to become the 8:03 to Union the following day. Which in turn would turn into the 12:34 to Kitchener (before the April 8 cuts it used to go to Mount Joy and then Kitchener). And it would then return back to Union to become the 4:38 to Allandale.
But now, the 8:03 to Union then goes out of service and an entirely new consist is brought out for the 12:34 to Kitchener and then 4:38 to Allandale run.
The 5:08 to Allandale shown in his post is 17:08Would you mind the using 24h clock? I had to reread this several times before I figured out what the pattern is you're describing.
The 5:48 Barrie train this morning had an operational issue past Downsview and was almost 2 hours late delaying every train behind it as well. Some passengers onboard that train are saying on Twitter that it was announced that a crew change was needed - anyone know why this would happen? Haven't heard that one before.
The crew ran through a rule 42/work block, and needed to be relieved from service.The 5:48 Barrie train this morning had an operational issue past Downsview and was almost 2 hours late delaying every train behind it as well. Some passengers onboard that train are saying on Twitter that it was announced that a crew change was needed - anyone know why this would happen? Haven't heard that one before.
Not much of a service aspect to that decision when they are less than 20 km (?) from Union.The crew ran through a rule 42/work block, and needed to be relieved from service.
Dan
Not much of a service aspect to that decision when they are less than 20 km (?) from Union.