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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
I'm putting the Las Vegas bus back out here....

   

Coke
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(11-23-2017, 12:01 PM)Canard Wrote: Yup, and some good news coming up!

Bombardier hiring CN to do a version of CP's holiday train to bring us our remaining 12 trains at once as a holiday miracle?
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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Bombardier to add 70 staff for light rail projects - The Whig
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(11-24-2017, 08:45 AM)Canard Wrote: Bombardier to add 70 staff for light rail projects - The Whig

Nice to find these archival stories from a few years back when they were ramping up capacity to deliver the various LRV orders on time!  Tongue
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(11-24-2017, 08:45 AM)Canard Wrote: Bombardier to add 70 staff for light rail projects - The Whig

Lol at the photo caption "Bombardier employees work on a Metrolinx train car" when the blue clearly denotes it as an Ion train.  Ahh, modern journalism...

(Heh:  Says the guy who didn't pay them a cent to read the article, the root cause of the very modern journalism I hate.)
...K
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Internally at Bombardier, they don’t differentiate between ML and RoW. Our 504 is their “Car 6”, with the ML Pilot LRV’s being 1 and 2.

So, I imagine when they didn’t their little show-and-tell to the Media, they likely just said it was the “Metrolinx Order”.
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And the Whig article didn't mention anything about deadlines...
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(11-23-2017, 05:18 PM)Coke6pk Wrote: I'm putting the Las Vegas bus back out here....



Coke

Ha...that would be awesome...obviously blue would be the main colour, but it would be sweet none the less.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New signage in <a href="https://twitter.com/WaterlooPrk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WaterlooPrk</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rideIONrt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wrLRT</a> testing. Us fans first noticed these didn’t work during delivery of LRV 502, when cycling alongside. <a href="https://t.co/UGQGaXC2Lw">pic.twitter.com/UGQGaXC2Lw</a></p>&mdash; ? Iain Hendry ? (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/934462389872988160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2017</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rideIONrt</a>. The crossing at the South end of R&amp;T Station is complete, but the North connection to Philip is still blocked. Timeline? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bikeWR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bikeWR</a> <a href="https://t.co/O3zbZ0hvoa">pic.twitter.com/O3zbZ0hvoa</a></p>&mdash; ? Iain Hendry ? (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/934467248085000193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Any one hear any updates on the other vehicles? We are nearing the end of November and no sign of 503/504.
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The Rockway PARTS is out (page 45)

A slight modification to the midtown PARTS to appease AirBoss (page 3).
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Seem to have trouble with the links. What was the change to midtown?
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(11-26-2017, 10:23 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: The Rockway PARTS is out (page 45)

A slight modification to the midtown PARTS to appease AirBoss (page 3).

Links aren’t working, although I strongly suspect the reason is that Kitchener has grossly incompetent web staff (at some level; don’t go telling off any specific person on my say-so!) rather than that there is anything wrong with your post. I thought I saw another comment about how searching doesn’t work properly and the PDFs have to be “generated” in order to see more than a preview. This is the thing that most irritates me about my profession: the backtalk us competent people get when we tell people how things should be done. I’m pretty sure civil engineers don’t get random incompetents telling them their proposed girder size on a new bridge is wrong. Whereas in my profession, I’m as likely as not to find that somebody I need to work with is ignorant of basic principles of whatever it is we are doing.
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(11-27-2017, 08:04 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:
(11-26-2017, 10:23 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: The Rockway PARTS is out (page 45)

A slight modification to the midtown PARTS to appease AirBoss (page 3).

Links aren’t working, although I strongly suspect the reason is that Kitchener has grossly incompetent web staff (at some level; don’t go telling off any specific person on my say-so!) rather than that there is anything wrong with your post. I thought I saw another comment about how searching doesn’t work properly and the PDFs have to be “generated” in order to see more than a preview. This is the thing that most irritates me about my profession: the backtalk us competent people get when we tell people how things should be done. I’m pretty sure civil engineers don’t get random incompetents telling them their proposed girder size on a new bridge is wrong. Whereas in my profession, I’m as likely as not to find that somebody I need to work with is ignorant of basic principles of whatever it is we are doing.

What is your profession ?
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The City of Kitchener has a new web site as of not too long ago, which has messed up searching, among other things.
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