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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(04-04-2018, 01:03 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: It'll be interesting to see how their stable of flat bed cars does delivery when the destination isn't KW, but Edmonton.

It would be interesting to see if the Edmonton cars even fit on a flatcar. Their vehicles are two modules longer, and certainly won't fit on the flatcars used for the Ion and Eglinton Crosstown vehicles.

(04-04-2018, 02:20 PM)tomh009 Wrote: How expensive can an LRV flatbed car be? Is it really purpose-made for this, or is it adapted from regular flatbed cars?

Not very. The flatcars used for the Ion LRVs and TTC streetcars are just standard cars from the TTX rental pool with two rails and a collapsible stowage box welded to their decks. When all this is over they'll grind off the welds and return them to the pool.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by KevinT - 04-04-2018, 03:54 PM
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