carloverboy2k
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I like the K5LA on 249 also.
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T3G
Senior Member
Yes.
APTA-2048
Senior Member
The information on the screens is pretty poor anyway. They’re not very informative. They just display the station name or the destination. Would be better if they differentiated between what is the next stop and what is the train’s final destination. It’s been a while, but I recall the screen displaying Oshawa while we were at Scarborough which I thought was confusing.
WB62
Senior Member
Yep! Not sure when these were first installed but I know some coaches have had them for decades. There are 8 screens per coach:
T3G
Senior Member
That's a company wide problem.
I haven't noticed if they've gotten better recently, but a few years ago I was on a bus that had taken a turn I had never seen it go down before on the highway, and the interior screen, instead of helpfully confirming whether I had, in fact, gotten on the correct bus, repeated for about 10 minutes continuously the fact of upcoming service changes and the fact that the next stop, also not named, had been requested. And then there is of course their horrendously poor stop announcements.
Metroscapes
Active Member
I think the colour temperatures captured by your camera are throwing me off, does the lighting seem different then normal?
WB62
Senior Member
I didn’t focus my phone properly so everything out the windows is way too bright and everything inside is too dark, it looked normal in real life
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
121 GO coaches being upgraded in North Bay at ONTC. The F59s from Metrolink rebuild also announced.
Ontario Upgrading GO Transit Rail Coaches
WB62
Senior Member
Some additional info:
This contract is likely going to involve refurbishing the series 4 and 5 coaches, which would be upgrading 106 coaches and 17 cab cars.
In total, combined with the announcement from 2 weeks ago this will push the fleet to 893 coaches refurbished (or brand new like the series 10 cars), out of 979 in total. That is 91% of the entire fleet and just leaves 86 more cars left to be refurbished.
generalcanada
Senior Member
So at some point onexpress needs to do their changes to the coaches too dont they?
T3G
Senior Member
Which coaches are those? There's 70 left in Series I and 158 in Series VIII that are less than 20 years old. The former won't be getting done for a long time, and I haven't caught wind of any Series VIIIs going for refurb at all. The last batch (2815-2857 and 2555-2560) from 2014 alone make 48, those would be a waste to refurb anytime soon either.
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WB62
Senior Member
T3G
Senior Member
I assumed with your comment you were referring to the next round of refurbishing - i.e. the one that would need to be done for the Series Is in 2036. Now I'm really lost. Which 86 cars are the ones that are left to be refurbished?
I must have misread the discussion, I thought it was the Series 7s that were going in with the announcements from two weeks ago.
In any case, the fact that we are discussing refurbishing 11 year old coaches is insane. Who do we have to petition to take away Metrolinx's bank account access? Is there really nothing more important that that money could buy?
What does ONExpress need to do them?
Assuming, of course, they're still in the picture lol
WB62
Senior Member
Series 1, 2, 4-8, and 10 are now fully refurbished or slated to go under refurbishment within the next few years, series 3 is the last series.
2036 isn’t even on the radar right now, they need to focus on finishing refurbishing the entire fleet before starting over again, and at this rate that will be accomplished by around the mid 2030’s.
Series 7 refurbishments began over 2 years ago, the first car is already back in service right now (the one being posted about yesterday with the usb-c ports).
Most series 8 coaches are approaching 17 years old, 17 years has been the exact amount of time between the series 1, 2, and 6 coaches first and second rebuilds (for series 6 this would instead be between new build and first rebuild), the second rebuild being the most recent done. This has been standard for a while now.
Voltz
Senior Member
If anything, start modifying the coaches to work with level platforms, something that seems to keep be pushed off and forgotten about, and the longer it takes the more station platforms will have to be modified after being built or rebuilt. Is this is something that has actually been designated as the responsibility of ONExpress I wouldn't know.