[drum118]

Sept 28
All photos on line

New chamber vaults being installed with guideway wall to be rebuilt between Britannia and the eastbound 401 off ramp.

Milling of concrete on both sides of each rail that will be remove next and reinstall again that is 5mm+ out of gauge for Courtneypark Intersection and on of 5 currently to be done

All rails in place for Topflight Intersection and being splice

New northbound lanes to the 407 bridge ready to be open with curb work still to be done for the 407 eastbound on ramp

Westbound 407 Ramp waiting paving and rest of the curb work on Hurontario cannot be done until current ramps is close

All Concrete behind me

 

[Mercury]

5mm? Honestly... fair. You don't even need precision equipment to check that. A tape measure from Home Depot is enough if you know how to use it. That's unacceptably out of spec for rails, in my unprofessional opinion.

I still want to know why this wasn't caught earlier. There should have been enough oversight to catch it on the first completed intersection. Also what kind of incompetent contractors can't measure below centimetres?

 

[Milaisacat]

5mm? Honestly... fair. You don't even need precision equipment to check that. A tape measure from Home Depot is enough if you know how to use it. That's unacceptably out of spec for rails, in my unprofessional opinion.

I still want to know why this wasn't caught earlier. There should have been enough oversight to catch it on the first completed intersection. Also what kind of incompetent contractors can't measure below centimetres?

Were they over by 5mm or under by 5mm. Either way, the company hired to build a standard gauge railway is in big trouble for them having not built a standard gauge railway.

 

[drum118]

Were they over by 5mm or under by 5mm. Either way, the company hired to build a standard gauge railway is in big trouble for them having not built a standard gauge railway.

Mobllinx was to bring over a crew from Europe to installed the tracks and teach locals how to do it. I have no idea if that happen as plan other than seeing a crew doing the work not like PNR.

I do know BOTT was doing the guideway work up to the end of 2024 that included encasing the ties for the open rail sections and fully encased the tracks at intersections, stations platform including the future extension was to go, at future stations loxtions as well a few pad areas. They used the same brackets to hold the rail in place like PNR is doing. Don't recalled if alignment was done the same way as to what PNR is doing.

The one issue being miss or over looked is Alstom bogges as they are not design for NA standards and they are not prepared to redesign them that has being causing Ottawa problems. The first car for the line went to Kingston to deal with Ottawa cars issues since they are the same car we are getting. After many months of investigation of the problem, Alstom stop the investigation and not prepared to make changes that I know.

I have no knowledge if the rail is from Europe which is most likey since it was cheaper to buy it there than here where the head profile is slightly different from NA rail. I expect Alstom will not honoured the warranty of the cars unless the rails meets their standards for thier cars that ML has taken upon themselves to cover the cost of fixing the gauge issue.

Eglinton had very little issues with the surface tacks unlike Hurontario. Rails had to be mill in places and don't recalled seeing rail being fix but wasn't out there that often that I may have miss some work. Have to rely on what other people were seeing.

Since Finch is using the Netherlands rail standars where rails were installed different than Hurontario, there were a lot less issues with gauge issue there. I did noticed a few tents over the tacks in various locations after the tracks were installed and no knowledge what was taking place under the tents bur cars were running in the east while the west was being built a lot sooner than Hurontario.

Testing was to started in Feb 2023 on the testbed to Matheson and here we are September 30 2025 with not all the trackwork done to Matheson or Eglinton the new testbed or any overhead system in place. Been over two years for the Hwy 401overpass trackwork that still not done.