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Old Posted Dec 27, 2013, 8:24 AM
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Brilliant! Good job, Ontario/Toronto sure could use something like this along some of its highway corridors.
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Is there any consideration to operating the Saint-Jerome line through the Mount Royal tunnel using dual-power locomotives like they will on the Mascouche line?
     
     
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Great, more trains for the subburb, while the subway is crumbling. The Quebec governement hates Montreal.
     
     
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Great, more trains for the subburb, while the subway is crumbling. The Quebec governement hates Montreal.
Subway is next on the list. Don't worry, the new métro cars are coming this year. step by step..
     
     
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Is there any consideration to operating the Saint-Jerome line through the Mount Royal tunnel using dual-power locomotives like they will on the Mascouche line?
''There are also plans to bring the line into Mount Royal Tunnel, joining the Deux-Montagnes Line. The proposed plan would reduce travel time to downtown Montreal by 15 minutes, arriving directly at Central Station, instead of circling Mount Royal and the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough to arrive at Lucien-L'Allier station. The AMT purchased dual-powered locomotives, like the ones to be used on the Mascouche Line, so that trains may run electrically when in the tunnel while continuing to operate on diesel on the rest of the line.''

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Old Posted Dec 27, 2013, 3:55 PM
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Build train to YUL.....build train to YUL....build fucking train to fucking YUL....


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So is there only going to be one track with trains only travelling peak direction?
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So is there only going to be one track with trains only travelling peak direction?
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trains in the middle of a highway, a first in Canada.


http://actsofminortreason.blogspot.ca/2010/04/phototour-expressing-spadina.html
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trains or subway ?
     
     
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Old Posted Dec 27, 2013, 11:18 PM
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subway trains are still trains. you would have to say "The first mixed rail train in the middle of a highway in Canada" to make the statement true. (and even then it would be pushing it as there will likely never be any freight trains using it)
     
     
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subway trains are still trains. you would have to say "The first mixed rail train in the middle of a highway in Canada" to make the statement true. (and even then it would be pushing it as there will likely never be any freight trains using it)
building a commuter line is not the same as building a subway line.

maybe commuter rail may be the best word to use. GO trains like .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuter_rail
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The AMT Train de l'est Mascouche is almost completed.


trains in the middle of a highway, a first in Canada.
Lol uhhh, what?



Crowchild Trail, Calgary. Since the 80s....





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Old Posted Dec 28, 2013, 1:14 AM
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LRT is not Commuter rail.

I misused the word ''train'', pardon me.
     
     
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Old Posted Dec 28, 2013, 1:15 AM
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Yes, you said trains, LRT trains are trains Didn't even mention the words commuter rail.


Edit: Ohhh I see this was already discussed prior to my comment.
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Great, more trains for the subburb, while the subway is crumbling. The Quebec governement hates Montreal.
Of course the Mascouche line will have most of its stops in Montreal rather than the suburbs and is largely intended to provide relief from the orange line congestion. It really isn't about the suburbs; that was just thrown in to make a more complete project.
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LRT is not Commuter rail.

I misused the word ''train'', pardon me.
The C-train is a hybrid system resembling the S bahn in Germany. It stretches out to the farthest regions of the urbanized area. The stations distances are 2km apart outside the core. The lines all converge downtown. Metro like frequencies.
     
     
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The C-train is a hybrid system resembling the S bahn in Germany. It stretches out to the farthest regions of the urbanized area. The stations distances are 2km apart outside the core. The lines all converge downtown. Metro like frequencies.
Uhm, no their not. The distances between the stations of Brentwood, University, Banff Trail, Lions Park, SAIT, and Sunnyside are all less than one KM. Same for the distance between Heritage, Southland, Anderson and many stations on the NE line. The average for the entire system is 1.2 km between stations... very similar to Toronto's average of 1 km between stations, and the 1.03 km after the extension is complete.
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Old Posted Dec 28, 2013, 4:27 AM
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The CTrain is not like an S-Bahn at all. It is a rapid transit LRT system.
     
     
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This doesn't look particularly safe. At least the Toronto example has a double barrier.
     
     
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