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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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02-07-2018, 11:56 AM (This post was last modified: 02-07-2018, 11:57 AM by KevinT.)
(02-07-2018, 09:39 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: Millhaven didn’t have a rail siding? Did they truck the vehicles a short distance and then transfer them to the flat car outside of the facility? This seems surprising!

That's exactly what they did, the vehicles were transferred from a truck onto the flatcar parked on a siding about 300 metres east of the plant on the corner of Taylor Kidd Blvd. and Jim Snow Rd. Here's the pic I got of 504 on her loading day, unfortunately I didn't get there in time to observe the operation:

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If you look on Google Maps' satellite view, you can see the empty bed for the track to Bombardier (above Direct Coil Inc.) that's being re-layed:

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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by KevinT - 02-07-2018, 11:56 AM
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