07-20-2016, 10:38 AM
(07-20-2016, 03:00 AM)Canard Wrote: Hang on a minute!I think those kinds of things are exactly what BuildingScout meant.
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For most people, the "Pilot vehicle" will be indistinguishable from the finished train. Maybe the interior in all the modules won't be totally fitted out. Or the paint job may not be finished. Or a few exterior panels might be missing.
Quote:What I don't fully understand is what/where Metrolinx is planing to play with their 2 Pilot trains. They have no trackwork that they can do so on anywhere in Toronto. All of their streetcar lines are built to 1495 mm gauge (1435 mm is standard) so they're incompatible.Back in ye olden times, there was talk that, since these are all the same vehicles anyway, that testing for the trains would happen here in Waterloo. It's been a little muddy, what with they way they keep getting talked about in the press as completely different things.
It'd be nice if the Region and Metrolinx could come to an agreement to let them play with their trains here this fall. I'd personally be very happy with that.
I think this stratification of the PR into into "Waterloo LRT vehicles" and "Metrolinx vehicles" has just been a consequence of Waterloo Region press/politicians asking about the former, and Toronto press/politicians asking about the latter, and Bombardier telling them each about their own order in isolation.
Waterloo gets told "Pilot vehicle in October, 3 months of testing, production vehicles in 2017." (I can't remember the actual dates, I just made those up)
Toronto gets told "Pilot vehicle this year, 18 months of testing, production vehicles in 2019."
In reality, it's "Pilot vehicle in October, 3 months of testing, Waterloo vehicles enter main production in 2017, pilot vehicle continues testing, any further issues found are fixed by the time the Metrolinx order begins production in 2019"