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Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more
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#271
07-20-2017, 05:33 PM
It has been for quite some time. Many of the trains had to go back to Hitachi to be disassembled due to cracking of the frames.
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#272
07-21-2017, 09:00 PM
Potential Bombardier Siemens merger in the works for August?
http://business.financialpost.com/transp...fec3ed0f8b
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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#273
07-27-2017, 10:08 PM
More awesome footage from Chongqing from Luke Starkenburg!

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#274
08-04-2017, 10:21 PM
From my recent trip: a front-seat ride end-to-end on the SIEMENS VAL208 system at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport: CDGVAL!



I love the automated announcements! The diction is flawless. The strange little blurble noise the motors make every time it takes off makes me so happy.
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#275
08-05-2017, 01:26 AM
Thank you, I love videos like these, just as much as I love roller coaster POV Videos!
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#276
08-05-2017, 07:21 AM
You speak my languages, friend! Big Grin
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#277
08-07-2017, 01:07 PM
In another time, flying on planes was fun.



You can read more about Braniff Jetrail here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetrail
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#278
09-16-2017, 09:05 PM (This post was last modified: 09-16-2017, 09:08 PM by Canard.)
When a bus thinks its a train:



History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtkLmTCOcn0
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#279
09-24-2017, 07:51 AM
Wonderful video from NHK World about the history, and future, of the Japanese superconductiving maglev programme.

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#280
09-26-2017, 04:34 PM (This post was last modified: 09-26-2017, 04:43 PM by kps.)
Friendship ended with BOMBARDIER
Now ALSTOM is my best friend
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#281
09-26-2017, 04:36 PM
Behind paywall. General concept?
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09-26-2017, 04:38 PM (This post was last modified: 09-26-2017, 04:44 PM by kps.)
(09-26-2017, 04:36 PM)timio Wrote: Behind paywall.  General concept?

Siemens' rail division is merging with Alstom's, which ends speculation that they would acquire Bombardier's.

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#283
09-26-2017, 05:21 PM
(08-04-2017, 10:21 PM)Canard Wrote: From my recent trip: a front-seat ride end-to-end on the SIEMENS VAL208 system at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport: CDGVAL!



I love the automated announcements!  The diction is flawless.  The strange little blurble noise the motors make every time it takes off makes me so happy.

I missed this video when it was first posted (must of been a day I surfed the site at work where YouTube is blocked)... 

Was surprised in the announcement in French of the word Terminal, instead of Aerogard.  Always learning new Quebec only words! (Like how some stop signs in France say STOP, or the KFC's in France being called KFC!)

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#284
09-26-2017, 08:37 PM
Looks like BBD's only option is to link up with one of the Chinese makers. They'll take what they want and sell what they don't to Siemens-Alstom.
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#285
09-26-2017, 09:32 PM
Would Canada allow that?
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