03-24-2023, 01:23 PM
(03-24-2023, 01:17 PM)Bytor Wrote:(03-24-2023, 07:00 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote: Send that to your counsellor. That is ridiculous...
That's the diesels idling, which they only do for an hour at most (or are only supposed to do) as they are being shut down for the night or warmed up in the morning. The yard, as I mentioned above, has wayside power, and with that they are virtually silent. I've walked past them on summer weekends.
Further to the hyperbole hypothesis I made earlier, AFAICT the 5:14am train gets parked at the Shirley yard, as does the 23:21. Also AFAICT, the last trains to park at the Park St yard do so between 19:00 and 20:00, and it seems the 5:58 train is the first one to leave the yard at Park St.
So one might potentially hear idling starting at roughly 5am, and again in the evening until roughly 9pm for the trains that get parked at Park St.
However, it is important to note that there might be other "behind the scenes" that Metrolinx will occasionally need to do, and that includes idling trains at Park St. until slots open up with everybody else who shares this track to be able to move things to park at the Shirley Yard or even other yards. This includes things like getting trains out to London even though they are not parked out there.
Also, please understand that what I am saying here is based on crowd-sourced, unofficial observations about which trains park or idle where, and may change at any time.
If people are complaining about a real thing, then they need to adequately document the times the trains are idling more than 1 hour and call/email Metrolinx.
Also took a video at around 8pm last night, but can assure you this was going until I fell asleep around 12-1am. I will further document as this may be needed to bring to my Councillor/Metrolinx. It’s not a hyperbole that they are actually making this idling sound all night until they leave in the morning.
https://i.imgur.com/pNoWOfj.mp4