SaugeenJunction
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They’ve been at ONTC’s shops in North Bay for a while so I’d assume sooner than later.
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drum118
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Someone was asking where GO was storing the surplus of coaches that are not being use due to COVID-19 and was stated anywhere space can be found for them.
Out photographing today, walk by GO Bathurst North Yard and what do I see on a Sunday, 25 coaches on the 2 south yard tracks with nothing at each end in the way of power or cab car. Can't recall when I last saw GO equipment in Bathurst North Yard on the weekend, but a decade or 2.
Out photographing today, walk by GO Bathurst North Yard and what do I see on a Sunday, 25 coaches on the 2 south yard tracks with nothing at each end in the way of power or cab car. Can't recall when I last saw GO equipment in Bathurst North Yard on the weekend, but a decade or 2.
Krypto98
Active Member
Are there any plans to repaint the F59s to the metrolinx paint scheme?
cplchanb
Senior Member
probably not, especially since theyre going to electrify the corridors. Theyll probably be kep the way they are until disposal.
Bordercollie
Senior Member
If they are required on the London route they will need at least half a dozen. How many are left now?
Krypto98
Active Member
8
They are 557,558,559,560,561,562,563,564
560 has been doing the London route pretty much everyday now
Bordercollie
Senior Member
To do 4 trips a day you need two trainsets so at least 3 locomotives. But if any of them require heavy maintenance, they might be short. So to do 4 trips a day you need 4 locomotives.
You might be able to do 6 trips a day using two trainsets. But would It deadhead from Kitchener to London in the morning? Or could they park it on track 3 at London station? But doesn't VIA park a train there also?
jamincan
Active Member
Why deadhead if they could carry passengers? (besides the cynical view that Metrolinx seemingly can't fathom running a service without Toronto at one end)
Bordercollie
Senior Member
Well it depends. Whos going to want to board at 4am train from Toronto to London?
That's only if you can't layover in London.
jamincan
Active Member
Someone might board a 6am train from Kitchener to London, though.
Bordercollie
Senior Member
The train would need to leave London at 6am, so the train would need to leave Kitchener at 3:30.
nfitz
Superstar
Earlier you said it would leave Toronto at 4 AM. which at best is Kitchener at 5:30 AM. Why then would it have to leave Kitchener at 3:30 AM?
Either way, I'm sure there's little demand for trips westbound at that time. If people are travelling at that time, the 401 is empty, and it's infinitely quicker to drive - unlike the daytime.
Bordercollie
Senior Member
Sorry I dont have the exact time required for the train to travel from Kitchener to London, and have enough time to board passengers and head out to Toronto.
You would want to be in Toronto before 9am.
There is a 7:24 VIA train from London that gets to Kitchener at 9:16 and gets into Toronto for 10:53. That means that train would need to leave London around 5:00 considering it makes more stops to get to Toronto by 9am.
dowlingm
Senior Member
Do GO and VIA use common hookups for hotel power, given they use different voltages for HEP? If not, then presumably that would add an item to the notion of laying over GO equipment in London.
smallspy
Senior Member
The physical plugs are the same, although the pin configurations within the plugs are different.
I've never heard of setting up a dual-voltage layover setup, and considering the requisite differences in wiring - while I'm sure it could be sorted out - it would still make it far too easy to "accidentally" plug the equipment into the wrong system. That said, there are alternate ways of doing it - there are portable step-down (and step-up) transformers that allow for the required change in voltage in a unit the size of a large suitcase.
Dan