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07-18-2018, 10:46 AM
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507 is being moved from the shop to storage track 2. 506 is out in the yard with coupler engaged. They moved another vehicle from one shop bay to another as well.
Edit: 507 later left the yard for testing. There were also a bunch of maintenance workers all over the line grinding some concrete around the tracks.
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So a couple of interesting events on my drive this afternoon. I happened upon the LRV crossing Erb/Caroline heading towards the park. The event was that when the signals activated there was a Moser Landscape water truck that was turning around in the right turn lane to back into the new multi use trail at which time the gate came down on top of the truck. It took quite awhile to clear the signals and move the truck. I couldn't tell from my vantage point if there were workers over at the mall parking lot to reset the signals. I always love when people in stopped traffic start laying on the horn....like everyone in the front has somehow fallen asleep to cause this backup.
The second was on Bearinger where the gates were down for an very long time while it seemed like the train was at the tech park stop. Most people ended up turning around and about 6 idiots drove around the arms.
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Thanks for sharing Iain!
Love how "It's here!" on the valu-mart sign is framed in the one crossing Erb/Caroline 
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Haha, great eye - I didn't notice that!
Both LRV’s were offloaded today, from 8:30am to about 1pm.
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Now that we know they can do 2 at a time, think the rest will be here before mid September before I go on vacation?
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(07-19-2018, 02:19 PM)bgb_ca Wrote: Now that we know they can do 2 at a time, think the rest will be here before mid September before I go on vacation?
I understand the remaining 6 will have their specialized equipment installed in Kingston. I’m not aware that there is a published timeline for that work.
Once it’s done, however, 3 roundtrips in one month should be feasible based on what we’ve seen, so we can reasonably expect the remaining vehicles to arrive fairly quickly at that time.
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(07-19-2018, 02:38 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: (07-19-2018, 02:19 PM)bgb_ca Wrote: Now that we know they can do 2 at a time, think the rest will be here before mid September before I go on vacation?
I understand the remaining 6 will have their specialized equipment installed in Kingston. I’m not aware that there is a published timeline for that work.
Once it’s done, however, 3 roundtrips in one month should be feasible based on what we’ve seen, so we can reasonably expect the remaining vehicles to arrive fairly quickly at that time.
First ones with the equipment should arrive sometime in August.
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I was curious if that little Trackmobile could handle the weight of the 4 cars... Here's my answer.
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07-21-2018, 07:26 AM
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Awesome video, Kevin!
It'll be cool to look back at these in the future.
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(04-15-2018, 10:13 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote: (04-15-2018, 08:39 AM)Canard Wrote: LOL! You make it sound like ours and Toronto's orders are the only ones Bombardier has ever done around the entire world.
They are doing just fine. A little behind on our project, yes - but Kingston has handed a poorly-managed project from another plant and have turned it around incredibly rapidly. Historically, Kingston has delivered on every single project in their entire history successfully. Canard. Why are you laughing at my response. You are the first person on here to get upset if someone is even a little bit disrespectful in your view.
May I remind you that New York city just shut bombardier out. Add Toronto et al. You can laugh at me if you want but if this compnay docent get serious about how is manages itself, it's days are numbered . I truly hope I am wrong because I want a Canadian company to suceed. But right now. The reality is they are incompetent. Put your bias a side and look at their unproven results.
(07-20-2018, 08:39 PM)KevinT Wrote:
Very cool video. Thanks for doing that. Quick question: is the shunting engine remote control operated? It doesn't appear to have an operator in the cab.
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