03-14-2022, 12:00 PM
(03-10-2022, 03:56 PM)Bytor Wrote: 80km/hr is pretty much max rated speed for most LRT-grade vehicles out there, so the average speed when including stops is *always* going to be less than that. […]
The Flexities have a top speed of 70 km/h in a straight line, and rather less on curves, since the lack of yaw between segments prevents meaningful superelevation; unfortunately this means any future vehicles on those tracks will be equally constrained.
(03-10-2022, 03:56 PM)Bytor Wrote: Better to buy all the GEXR/CP tracks down to Galt and the yard at Samuelson, make sure there's double tracks from Elmira to Galt, and run a heavy rail RER/commuter service that stops at Galt, Preston, Block Line, Downtown, Uptown, St Jacobs, and Elmira. With eyes on extending to Paris and Brantford, eventually, by rebuilding along the rail trail. (Yes, that can be done and still preserve the trail.)
Waterloo Central Railway has some nice RDCs that in principle can do 135 km/h. At least one of them even runs.