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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What a beautiful morning here in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/kwAwesome?src=hash">#kwAwesome</a> at the King Street Grade Separation. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://t.co/haEAkRmwr4">pic.twitter.com/haEAkRmwr4</a></p>— iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/832592389076303872">February 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
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If anyone cares, according to the CPTDB wiki, there are retired Cambridge Transit vehicles numbered 511 and 514. I doubt that it really matters though.
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February 17: Latest update from Bombardier... ION train headed for Sudbury later today.
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(02-17-2017, 03:29 PM)timc Wrote: If anyone cares, according to the CPTDB wiki, there are retired Cambridge Transit vehicles numbered 511 and 514. I doubt that it really matters though.
Can't remember if I ever rode on them. New Looks were generally only used on school runs in the 90s.
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02-17-2017, 08:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-17-2017, 08:31 PM by danbrotherston.)
And now for something completely different:
I encountered a deer wandering around the LRT right of way in Waterloo Park. I didn't think they were that common in the city, but this one was very tame, didn't bolt as I biked up, and hung around all chill like as I videoed it and shone my helmet light in it's face. For a moment I thought it was one of the animals kept in the park. I do wonder how much of an issue that would be for the LRT, it is a natural area, and the animals could be corralled by the fences to stay in the right of way. Today however, just added some interest to my ride home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDAppF2fyX0
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Some photos from Bryan Martyniuk from this morning - from one of the yards in Thunder Bay. Still shuffling around.
Before you say "I can't believe it hasn't left yet!", keep in mind it only takes a day or two once a train leaves from Thunder Bay to make it down to Toronto. The 10-12 day delivery time we keep hearing factors in all this shuffling around in yards.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A thought: Start ticketing/towing, and use the cash to pay off the businesses suing the <a href="https://twitter.com/RegionWaterloo">@RegionWaterloo</a>? Cc: <a href="https://twitter.com/Kim_Moser">@Kim_Moser</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt">@rideIONrt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://t.co/5ampbXVZ9y">pic.twitter.com/5ampbXVZ9y</a></p>— iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/832773157236797440">February 18, 2017</a></blockquote>
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(02-17-2017, 06:49 PM)DHLawrence Wrote: (02-17-2017, 03:29 PM)timc Wrote: If anyone cares, according to the CPTDB wiki, there are retired Cambridge Transit vehicles numbered 511 and 514. I doubt that it really matters though.
Can't remember if I ever rode on them. New Looks were generally only used on school runs in the 90s.
They were soooo much nicer than the Old Look buses I was riding on in the late 70s!
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(02-17-2017, 08:30 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I do wonder how much of an issue that would be for the LRT, it is a natural area, and the animals could be corralled by the fences to stay in the right of way.
I'm sure this is one reason that the right of way is so much wider than the tracks - to allow any such interlopers (human or otherwise) space to get out of the way of an oncoming train.
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02-18-2017, 09:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-18-2017, 09:42 AM by Canard.)
Yeah, I think you're right, Kevin - hence the high tracks, low ditches, etc. - all Transport Canada stuff. A narrow fence right up close to the tracks wouldn't leave any opportunity to ditch to the sides.
Some delivery updates:
The TTC's latest FLEXITY Outlook 4432 left a day earlier on CP 420 - and that train hit and killed a snowmobiler yesterday. 
Ours left this morning at 1am, on another CP 420 (there's a daily departure from Thunder Bay Eastbound called 420, and daily departure from Toronto called 421). Will likely hit Sudbury Sunday Evening/Monday Morning. Then 5-7 hours to the MacTier sub.
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Quick informal poll: Should we create a separate thread for ION phase 2? Or keep it all together?
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Together. It's the same system.
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I think together. Even the Grade Sep thread is lightly attended, because most of those updates are here.
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