ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[KevinL]

Does this mean the only section of track left is between Wellington and Victoria on King?

The only place where track needs to be laid, yes, I believe so. There are some spots with track in place that has yet to be welded/aligned/embedded.

[Canard]

In Canard's photo of the crossover near PI, why did they use wooden poles for stabalizing there when everywhere else is metal?

Just temporary, for the "test track" configuration. Once the final catenary is strung, these will be removed.

The trains are so late, though, that it may very well be that the final catenary will be in place and they would have been completely unnecessary.

[Canard]

...and to clarify that a little more, what I mean is - they needed to use the "Freight only" crossover for the LRV testing instead of the one closer to Erb/Caroline because the catenary would not have been completed that close to the intersection, so the wooden poles support a temporary contact wire through that freight-only crossover, which trains doing burn-in would have (will?) use.

(See page 18 and 19, here: http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/..._Part2.pdf )

[drum118]

Jan 31
A lot more crews working this year than last year.

100 photos from my visit are up om my Flickr site

100 photos!  Could you please post the link to your Flickr?  Thanks!

Here the album for them with 1,500 shots in them including Jan 31. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/drum118/al...0590612016

My main site contains 146,000 shots including GRT, photos for the region and all kinds of stuff
https://www.flickr.com/photos/drum118/

[Canard]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The start of anchor wall tile work at R&amp;T Park. This will be the first of the ceramic tile walls. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://t.co/SaLjWtzdUW">pic.twitter.com/SaLjWtzdUW</a></p>&mdash; iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/828730460008226816">February 6, 2017</a></blockquote>

[Pheidippides]

Another curing structure along Waterloo Public Square going up:
   
   

[Canard]

1/2 - Saturday, February 4, 2017

   
A couple of crews were out working on Saturday at Conestoga; installing more Fastrax switch heaters.

   
Driver's facility is looking great.

   
Lots of complex electrical work here for the (now completed) catenary system.

   

   
Finishing touches.

[Canard]

2/2 - Saturday, February 4, 2017

   
Mass Electric vehicle at Conestoga.

   
New signage at King/Conestogo.

   
Waterloo Spur.

   
Waterloo Spur.

[taylortbb]

Looks like CPTDB user LilRedDave has a new photo of an Ion LRV in Thunder Bay: https://cptdb.ca/topic/8642-waterloo-reg...ent=759318 . Also attached here for those that don't have CPTDB accounts.

[Canard]

Beautiful!!

[Square]

Was walking by the King St Grade Separation last night about 8:30 pm and it looked like they were welding the rails. Also looked like the rails were roughly in place from south of wellington straight to north of Victoria!

[KevinL]

Was walking by the King St Grade Separation last night about 8:30 pm and it looked like they were welding the rails.  Also looked like the rails were roughly in place from south of wellington straight to north of Victoria!

Both sides?

[kps]

Was walking by the King St Grade Separation last night about 8:30 pm and it looked like they were welding the rails.  Also looked like the rails were roughly in place from south of wellington straight to north of Victoria!

There are rails from Wellington almost to Moore. Hoardings have gone up this week between Victoria and the tracks but the rails are still in the same pile they've been in all summer/autumn/winter.

   

   

   

[Square]

Thank you for the great pictures! Was dark and they were working, so I didn't walk all the way to check.

[Canard]

Awesome photos (and vantage point), kps!