10-28-2017, 09:53 AM
(10-28-2017, 02:00 AM)jamincan Wrote: The gauntlet track is needed at stations to allow the freight trains to have clearance from the platform edges. ION uses standard gauge. The TTC, on the other hand, does use a wider gauge on its streetcar and subway network; perhaps he mistakenly believes it's the standard?
That’s what I said — ION has a smaller loading gauge than freight. The track gauge is of course standard gauge, same as freight.
As to his understanding of the gauge, I’d like to see what would happen if you first engaged him in a discussion of what the rail gauges were, then kidnapped him and forced him to stand in the Waterloo Town Square parking lot where the freight and LRT lines are connected together with a switch. Then force him to count the seats on a bus and on an LRV, and also measure the size of seats on a bus, LRV, and Calgary LRV.
The cognitive dissonance would probably be fatal.