12-15-2022, 01:10 PM
This morning I was on the last set of ION trains before they took them out of service, the train I was on got stuck on the hill on Ottawa right before Borden Station, at the switch before Mill Station the train started to lose power with the lights starting to flicker and the heaters cutting in and out, as the train went along Ottawa the pantograph was continously arcing with the overhead line and power was very obviously getting lost as the train was going at a snails pace. It seemed as if the heaters were being the main power draw because whenever the heaters turned off the train would be able to move completely fine but they kept them on so the train just had no power to move, so it seems as if it may be less of a problem with the system and more a problem with the trains.