03-02-2018, 11:10 PM
I'm currently sitting on a refurbed LRC moving at 150 km/h.
We're not on the equipment that we were originally supposed to be on, which I believe is another LRC car, probably ahead of us on the trainset. The train staff were saying that they refused to work that equipment because it was super bumpy on the previous trip. Maybe there is something to be said about getting new trains because the refurbs didn't fix the underlying problems (and indeed they disabled the tilting in the refurb, I believe).
They planned for the refurb to work but I think it didn't quite meet expectations. Some more info here:
https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/VIA_Rail..._3451-3478
https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/VIA_Rail..._3300-3372
We're not on the equipment that we were originally supposed to be on, which I believe is another LRC car, probably ahead of us on the trainset. The train staff were saying that they refused to work that equipment because it was super bumpy on the previous trip. Maybe there is something to be said about getting new trains because the refurbs didn't fix the underlying problems (and indeed they disabled the tilting in the refurb, I believe).
They planned for the refurb to work but I think it didn't quite meet expectations. Some more info here:
https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/VIA_Rail..._3451-3478
https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/VIA_Rail..._3300-3372