02-25-2020, 09:16 AM
(02-25-2020, 01:38 AM)taylortbb Wrote: The original system design had three tracks, with the freight one having a crash wall separating it from the LRV tracks. Basically Transport Canada wants LRVs to be safe even if a freight train derails, and they're not rated for that kind of impact. Perhaps they use the station as a pseudo crash wall, providing isolation between LRV and freight.
You might be right about the pseudo crash wall. I never thought of that.
But what is certain is that this sort of paranoia is completely unnecessary for this particular line. Even if the freight were to derail, which is unlikely on the high-quality, constantly-maintained LRT tracks, at the speeds it goes on this line it would just settle down onto the ballast and sit there, not tip over or send trucks flying across the neighbourhood or into the path of an LRV.