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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
3/5 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016

   
A scale plate ("ruler") on the pantograph mockup allows the position of the contact wire to be precisely set laterally.

   
I tried to get a shot to show this as best I could - here, you can clearly see the "zig-zag" layout of the contact wire. This is by design - to guarantee that the contact wire won't wear a groove in the pantograph on the train as it moves along at high speed.

   
Dwarf signals at the South end of the R&T Park Station.

   
The yard track at the OMSF just gets crazier and crazier every day.

   
These are really funky switches - they're tight radius, so there's a restraining rail - I've never seen switches like these before.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by Canard - 07-20-2016, 05:29 PM
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