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The answer is none-of-the-above - Crosslinx, being the maintainer for the line, is behind it. They are worried about their staffing...

You're comparing apples to oranges again. The Ontario Line's capacity specs are basically nonsensical. If you use the TTC's numbers -...

They do have special snow clearing rail equipment, and they're using them. But they also don't work particularly well on switches...

This is a temporary measure until the snow stops flying. It quite literally is a problem of aerodynamic forces affecting the loco...

Only if you don't have to pay for it. Which, as a taxpayer, we all do. Dan

As a bit of an addendum to this.... Modern locos can develop in excess of 150,000 pounds of drawbar pull on the first knuckle - each...

I believe that the overnight and weekend closures for the past couple of weeks have been due to work on the third track at Ossington...

They would often do the same on the rail side. And would take longer than promised to engineer it. But would then follow it up with an...

I was referring to street-running vehicles in this context. Buses and streetcars. Of course a level loading vehicle like a subway is...

There is a known tendency for most types of third rail shoe to have issues when the snow gets higher than the rail itself. The cover...

That's incorrect. Low floor vehicles have faster boarding and alighting times, as the passengers don't need to climb stairs into the...

My understanding is that the three finalists were Bombardier, Stadler and the eventual winner, Siemens. Dan

The VLocity trainsets being built in Australia, which mechanically are almost identical to the various Voyager types operating in...

The rate of injury per 100,000 passengers is also lower with the Outlooks than it was with the CLRVs. Dan

In what ways would high floor LRVs make the Waterloo ION run faster? Is there a difference between 70% and 100% low-floor? How much...