[cplchanb]

It was not in service.

It was shuttled to the Whitby Maintenance facility with a bunch of other equipment last night. It's currently sitting with all of those other cars - and still pointing backwards - along the bad-order track on the south side of the facility.

Dan

aww too bad... our esteemed former GO employee wouldve been jumping for joy haha...

 

[RU479]

It was not in service.

It was shuttled to the Whitby Maintenance facility with a bunch of other equipment last night. It's currently sitting with all of those other cars - and still pointing backwards - along the bad-order track on the south side of the facility.

Dan

Yeah just went by Whitby and saw it

 

[RU479]

Although it seemed that people were allowed inside of 206, if it was just a shuffle should they have not just equipment moved it?

 

[WB62]

It was not in service.

It was shuttled to the Whitby Maintenance facility with a bunch of other equipment last night. It's currently sitting with all of those other cars - and still pointing backwards - along the bad-order track on the south side of the facility.

Dan

Are you sure it wasn’t in service? It’s at West Harbour in this photo:

 

[drum118]

Are you sure it wasn’t in service? It’s at West Harbour in this photo:

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With a locomotive that is clearly shown in that photo in front of the cab car, how would the the cab car crew see what is in front of them to operate the train other than being in the locomotive itself??

 

[WB62]

With a locomotive that is clearly shown in that photo in front of the cab car, how would the the cab car crew see what is in front of them to operate the train other than being in the locomotive itself??

Do you think I’m saying that they’re driving from in there? No, I’m saying that I think it ran on a consist that was in service yesterday as a regular coach.
Why else would they bring the train all the way down to West Harbour if it wasn’t acting as a coach in the train? Wouldn’t be for fun or for the foamers.

 

[drum118]

Do you think I’m saying that they’re driving from in there? No, I’m saying that I think it ran on a consist that was in service yesterday as a regular coach.
Why else would they bring the train all the way down to West Harbour if it wasn’t acting as a coach in the train? Wouldn’t be for fun or for the foamers.

As it been point by other, it been tested or maybe to see how all the new changes are doing along with break-in to make sure there are no issues and if so what has to take place before the car return to normal duty. Any issues and fixies that take place will have to happen on the other cars being rebuilt like any production runs. In service and testing are 2 different things as well being in service.

There could be equipment in the diver close off area measuring various things that can't be seen by the public. Being a coach allow for various testing and metering to take place and not being in the way of riders using the car..

Sit back a few week and you will see it back in real service again

 

[smallspy]

Are you sure it wasn’t in service? It’s at West Harbour in this photo:

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There is no way that they would have run the train in service for just a couple of hours, and then put it in the line of bad-ordered equipment in Whitby.

They do sometimes run equipment trains to do additional mileage to get the wheels to turn a bit more, or to pick up additional equipment from Lewis Red. That's likely what happened here.

Dan

 

[RU479]

then put it in the line of bad-ordered equipment in Whitby.

What does "bad-ordered equipment" mean? Does that mean GO isn't happy with the work done on it?

 

[Bordercollie]

What does "bad-ordered equipment" mean? Does that mean GO isn't happy with the work done on

Likely defects that need to be fixed. Flat Wheels, brakes, bearings anything like that .

 

[smallspy]

What does "bad-ordered equipment" mean? Does that mean GO isn't happy with the work done on it?

It means that it's not available for service and needs some sort of remediation.

That could be anything from component replacements to needing to be cleaned. In this case, it may be as simple as still needing inspection.

Dan

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Beauty

https://twitter.com/x/status/1628461599567511552

 

[Bordercollie]

Beauty

https://twitter.com/x/status/1628461599567511552

What's in the maintenance bay beside 212

 

[SaugeenJunction]

What's in the maintenance bay beside 212

UP Express unit.

 

[superelevation]

That isn’t what happening, NJT is actually ordering brand new EMUs with the Multilevel design, they are not converting already existing Multilevels into EMUs.

. . .
A multiple unit is just a semi permanently coupled consist - it's normal for some cars to be trailers / cabs and some to be motors. Never implied existing cars were having motors and pantos installed, just that they would be combined with new power cars into mus.

The concept is potentially applicable to Toronto, but the equipment is absolutely not. It is not well suited to the type of frequent-stop commuter service that many want GO to aspire to (and which it hopes to achieve). Even in Montréal the equipment has garnered large numbers of complaints from passengers and crews due to narrow doorways and limited exits.

...

Never suggested the ML as a particular model for Toronto, there would be no reason - the restrictive design exists for the MR tunnel and Hudson Tubes. They also have dual height boarding and false floors which hurt the layout compared to the much simpler Bilevels