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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Back and forth between the OMSF and Colby Drive today with 507. Lots of different operators on the radio today in the cab - while it sounds like they're doing signal timing, I suspect they've also got a few new trainees at the helm.
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Saw 507 + Friend get put away yesterday evening coupled together, have they been seen in the wild in this configuration yet?


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Great spotting! There are plans in the near future to have four LRV’s (two trains of two) going at full acceleration in opposite directions on the Fairway Hydro Corridor to tax the TPSS’ to their limits.
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Hopefully fully sandbagged, AC or heater on max (depending on draw), wipers and defrosters going, grab every last ounce of load demand for the TPSS.
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Probably!

Supposed to be a film shoot today at Central Station; a new commercial for the Region.
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I heard through the grapevine that one of the public art installations has been potentially cancelled Sad
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Please tell me it’s not Network or my Fairway birbs.
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(06-08-2018, 04:29 PM)Canard Wrote: The curb starts for the Rapidway have been ground down to a ramp from a sharp edge.

I noticed they finally removed the traffic cone on the curb at King and Northfield, but I wasn't sure if they had done any work on it. Without a clear marker am pretty sure cars will still drive up on it by accident.
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I wish Keolis or GrandLinq or the Region would put a Giant right-justified illuminated “ion” logo on the OMSF.
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Just spotted 507 at Mill Station. My first unplanned sighting (was not seeking it out at all).
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Caught a bit of today's testing as 505 arrived and departed from Waterloo Public Square.  The signals at the Erb/Caroline intersection worked well but the ones in the parking lot were still a bit glitchy...

...K
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(06-12-2018, 03:09 PM)KevinT Wrote: Caught a bit of today's testing as 505 arrived and departed from Waterloo Public Square.  The signals at the Erb/Caroline intersection worked well but the ones in the parking lot were still a bit glitchy...


Can’t wait for those lubricators… Undecided
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(06-12-2018, 04:19 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:
(06-12-2018, 03:09 PM)KevinT Wrote: Caught a bit of today's testing as 505 arrived and departed from Waterloo Public Square.  The signals at the Erb/Caroline intersection worked well but the ones in the parking lot were still a bit glitchy...


Can’t wait for those lubricators…  Undecided

Me too.
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Did they ever get the same problem figured out with their Gold Coast Line? I know it was quite bad for some time.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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The reason our system has lubricators from the start is because of the problems G:Link encountered.

Quote:"By modifying the friction characteristics at the wheel-rail interface using specialised lubricants, wheel squeal and noise was completely eliminated during trials carried out on the GCLR network."

Quote:"The team from the IRT recommended and tested the use of friction head modifiers at a couple of critical locations in Surfers Paradise which had a significant impact on reducing the noise at those locations.
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