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carloverboy2k
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I wonder why it's been placed as a coach?
cplchanb
Senior Member
is that mould on the seats?
thats prob the reason why. cab is condemnedEnviroTO
Senior Member
The blue fabric with a marble like pattern that matches the grey door and grey panels?is that mould on the seats?
T3G
Senior Member
Yeah, that's what all the seats look like.
Call me crazy, but putting a coach with mouldy seats in a mid-train position hardly seems like a solution.
Call me crazy, but putting a coach with mouldy seats in a mid-train position hardly seems like a solution.
cplchanb
Senior Member
T3G
Senior Member
Eh, they're not my favourite, but I prefer them over the Metrolinx green. There is too much green in the "new" branding and most of it is not really in agreeable shades.
WB62
Senior Member
Too much green lmao, that’s a new one. The branding is way better than it used to be
T3G
Senior Member
The buses and locos look ok, but the BiLevel version of the new scheme is positively dreadful. I have no idea how anyone could have signed off on it or what it actually brought to the table.
Jonny5
Senior Member
They are made like that to disguise dirt and stains. When you have a single uniform colour stains are very obvious, but not when there are random looking multi-colour accents all over the fabric.
It's actually a very common trick. The TTC T1 trains don't use it on the red seats, but they do use it on the floors with the "someone spilled paint everywhere" aesthetic.
Even office buildings use this trick for carpeting in hallways with weird multi-colour random designs for the same purpose; you don't notice the carpet is dirty until it's really really dirty, but their infrequent carpet cleaning is just often enough to prevent that from happening.
RU479
Active Member
If I had to wager a guess, GO probably wanted another 10 car consist, but rather than moving 251, placing 3 coaches, and re-placing 251 at the other end, they just grabbed 3 coaches and a cab car and placed it in front of the consist, with them not bothering to remove 251.
Allandale25
Senior Member
Former GO cab car. It's now with Tri-Rail in Florida (I don't know for how long it has been used there). The video shows it the paint being stripped down to its original GO colours and then being transformed to a different cab coach style (someone else here is better equipped than me to describe what model type this becomes?) and being repainted.
T3G
Senior Member
That's thankfully not the same car. For one thing, it makes no sense to repaint it before chopping off the front end and grafting another one on, and for another, the car body numbers are different.
The second car is a Hyundai Rotem coach.
The second car is a Hyundai Rotem coach.
RU479
Active Member
Yeah those two cars (the ex GO BiLevel cab car and the Hyundai Rotem cab car) are the first to be repainted into Tri Rail’s new scheme. (picture not mine)
APTA-2048
Senior Member
Tri Rail bought their BiLevels new. But they used almost the same livery as GO Transit.