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RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 04-16-2018
RUMOR: New Monorail Fleet Has Been Ordered For Walt Disney World
The new fleet will reportedly be built by Bombardier of Canada, the same company that built the Mark VI trains for Walt Disney World
Squeeee!
I adore the MK VI's. But if they have to be replaced, there's no-one better suited to do it than Bombardier.
Hopefully they'll be built in Kingston!
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - trainspotter139 - 06-25-2018
Quote:https://twitter.com/yegvalleyLRT/status/1011327235427430400 @yegvalleyLRT
. @doniveson @YEGMayorOffice Thought you'd want to see the first @BombardierRail LRV loaded onto a rail car - set to begin its journey to #yeg. It will arrive right on time, in July!
![[Image: Dgj0urfUcAAIRI8.jpg]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dgj0urfUcAAIRI8.jpg)
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - KevinL - 06-25-2018
I didn't expect them to be able to put all seven segments on one car! Impressive.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 07-24-2018
FLEXITY Freedom promotional video for Edmonton:
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 09-04-2018
The first Siemens CityVal tests are beginning in Rennes for ligne b at their OMSF (Garage Atelier):
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 10-08-2018
Pretty interesting milestone from France. The city of Caen had a guided busway prototype, which was fraught with problems. This was essentially Bombardier's take on LOHR's Translohr ("Tram-on-tyres") system, which has had many successful installations around the world. They replace the entire system with conventional tramway, and just took delivery of the first Alstom LRV.
I can't even imagine how they are selling this to the city, and that's why I find this project so interesting - only a handful of times in history has an entire technology been replaced in this kind of 1:1 fashion. Jacksonville's done it (MATRA VAL 256 was replaced with a Universal Mobility monorail), as an example - but it's exceedingly rare.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - KevinL - 10-30-2018
The trams in Trieste, Italy, can climb steep hills by mating with an extra motive unit that gives them funicular-like climbing ability.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 10-30-2018
Another awesome video from my friend Luke:
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - danbrotherston - 10-30-2018
That is seriously cool!
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 10-30-2018
It's the only installation of Transrapid (my heart!!), and it's sad that during the day they only run it at 300 km/h (they save the 430 km/h full-speed runs for rush-hours, mornings and evenings). But it is amazing nevertheless.
My husband and good friend have both ridden it (separately) and both said that it was bumpy. This kills me!!!
The first minute of this is so me:
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - danbrotherston - 10-30-2018
Is there a reason they limit the speed?
AFAIK, with traditional trains it's to reduce wear, but I wouldn't think that would apply to a maglev.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 10-30-2018
Probably just being cheap, reducing wear and electricity consumption in off-peak. Ridership is really low, sadly.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - plam - 10-30-2018
My spouse took it this year and didn't find it to be bumpy. Also not crowded.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - plam - 11-23-2018
I've posted about US FRA rules, right? Apparently they're now more flexible:
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/11/23/u-s-finally-legalizes-modern-european-style-train-cars/
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - KevinT - 11-26-2018
(11-23-2018, 10:33 PM)plam Wrote: I've posted about US FRA rules, right? Apparently they're now more flexible:
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/11/23/u-s-finally-legalizes-modern-european-style-train-cars/
I love this quote from that article:
Quote:Former Amtrak CEO David Gunn complained U.S. trains had to be designed like “high-velocity bank vaults.” Rather than just bulk up, European and Asian trains instead are designed to absorb impacts and avoid collisions in the first place. And they have better safety records.