10-11-2018, 09:51 PM
Spotted on the Frederick platform tonight.
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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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10-12-2018, 09:27 AM
10-12-2018, 03:24 PM
 (10-12-2018, 03:18 PM)D40LF Wrote: It seems like an LRV has stalled at Northfield Station. As such, Northfield is backed up to Skylark. I doubt it was stalled, there's long periods of waiting around during the early portions of testing, and to the best of my knowledge this was it's first test day and it's the first vehicle to have all the communications and automated train protection gear installed so this would have been a whole new category of testing. Regardless, if they were planning to park it there they should have had a signal tech out to ensure it wasn't causing a traffic blockage on Northfield, so that's still a failure of sorts. :-(
...K
10-13-2018, 07:13 AM
(10-12-2018, 05:11 PM)KevinT Wrote:(10-12-2018, 03:18 PM)D40LF Wrote: It seems like an LRV has stalled at Northfield Station. As such, Northfield is backed up to Skylark. Is that equipment you referred to the so-called Metrolinx equipment?
It's the equipment that was missing in all the other vehicles so far. Position reporting and related Automatic Train Protection, video, voice, and data communications, wayside equipment control, etc.
My best guess is that the region spec'd and obtained it themselves after Metrolinx' stalling during their attempts to break the Bombardier contract in favour of Alstom, but I really don't know. Maybe Metrolinx eventually inked their spec and we just went with it. It's been called the 'Specialized Equipment' by Tom Galloway in the press, and the Free Issue Equipment by those familiar with industry lingo. Whatever you want to call it, it's finally all here in 511 and a whole new phase of the testing has begun. Huzzah!  Edited 2018-10-16 to correct "Field Issued Equipment" to "Free Issue Equipment". D'oh!
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10-13-2018, 10:55 AM
10-13-2018, 11:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-13-2018, 11:09 AM by trainspotter139.)
(10-13-2018, 10:55 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(10-13-2018, 10:49 AM)trainspotter139 Wrote: There are trains are out today I would assume all over. 511 is out (i would assume somewhere along the Spur Line to as far north as Conestoga Mall but it could be anywhere too) and this tweet (https://twitter.com/rideIONrt/status/105...6488164353) shows 507 in it. I don't know what other vehicles are out though.
10-13-2018, 12:50 PM
I saw one stopped on the Northfield overpass while driving to St Jacobs this morning. No clue which number.
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