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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
   
Looking North from the University of Waterloo; that's Columbia in the background.

   
Fence posts have been installed now along the spur line here.  I'm OK with these, because the berm is still so high that the fence won't really get in the way of the view of the trains flying through this corridor!

   
At the Research & Technology stop, a bunch of work has happened off to the left there for ducts (communications/signaling?).

   
The gauntlet track switch gear has been installed here, too.  That's a hydraulic pump on the right, and two hydraulic lines connect to a cylinder that drives the points between the rails.  These will be a very low duty cycle, operating only twice per day - once in the morning, and once at night, once service has finished for the day.

   
Switch gear nameplate shot.


For more information on the switch machines for the gauntlet tracks: https://www.voestalpine.com/signaling/st..._hr_en.pdf
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