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The Series VII BiLevels are only 17-22 years old and a huge amount of the fleet is even younger than that. What would we even be buying new now? It’s not like Metrolinx has anywhere to run electric trains.
With provocative populist takes such as this, have you considered a career in politics? You'd be a shoe in.
Perhaps a symptom of a 'throw away society' and everything always has to be new and shiny - like the latest cel phone. It is prudent to maintain something until it becomes too costly or simply unserviceable - particularly when it is public money.
And even if they wanted to start the electrification process, wouldn't there be kits that bombardier has that could be retrofitted onto the fleet for electrification, save for the replacement of some of the older locomotives?
I think that was an initial concept, and in theory could be done. But like the UP Express DMUs, may be much harder and more expensive in practice.
if anything they could benefit from relatively easy conversion projects to make something like the NJT multilevel EMUs. they can probably engineer power cars to slot in between the existing coaches without needing to sell of everything. they would only need to get more cab cars to bookend.
This is for the Metrolinx TPI noted here.
Which TA would be looking for these? Oakville?
Possibly Chatham, Collingwood, and Cobourg. They’ve been given funds to study the electrification of their fleet. But it’s not yet known what kind of vehicles they will buy.
