01-29-2016, 03:23 PM
(01-29-2016, 11:56 AM)ookpik Wrote: Hopefully our planners are aware of "minor details" such as this: Raise the roof? Union Station reno runs into problem: New trains won't fit
Quote:Authorities are spending a quarter of a billion dollars renovating the shed behind Union Station where the trains stop. One teensy hitch: As things stand now, the new electric trains that are supposed to glide in one day won’t fit.
The old steel arches that span the shed are too low. Engineers can’t take them out because the station is a National Historic Site and the unlovely old shed, built in 1929-30, is considered a heritage feature. Houston, we have a problem. How do you put electric trains on the GO Transit system unless you can run them into its central hub?
Drop the tracks by 10-20 cm? That should give them sufficient clearance, right?