Pantograf Posted November 28, 2018 Report Share Posted November 28, 2018 16 minutes ago, LRT said: WAIT! I want that destination sign! Just wait for the next one, there will be plenty more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Meu Posted November 29, 2018 Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 Both 2064 and 2080 are now sitting by Haysboro Spur waiting to be loaded up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantograf Posted November 29, 2018 Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 Yup, they were moved there yesterday afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Meu Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 I saw ETS trucks pull into haysboro today... 2080 was gone when I took these photos and 2064 was being loaded on at the time. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thager Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Were the loaded on to rail cars or transport trucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Meu Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Just now, thager said: Were the loaded on to rail cars or transport trucks transport trucks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benton Harper Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 1 hour ago, R. Meu said: transport trucks. Excellent, took forever to get 2066 up to edmonton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Parsons Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 2064 and 2080 must have been put in a yard somewhere over the weekend. No spotting of them on Friday. Both myself and @LRT had been looking out for them at different times on Friday, and I thought we had just managed to miss them. Although I didn't go around until later in the day, I thought it was odd I still didn't see some evidence of them being unloaded. I'd entirely forgotten about them when I remembered no one had spotted them as I was approaching Coliseum, and low and behold, there they were. Given that E track has been cleared of snow, it's possible they were unloaded Monday, or most likely Tuesday. Pantographs have been removed since their departure from Calgary. No sign of activity at 13:00, so it's likely the cars aren't being moved until tonight or later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRT Posted December 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 That's awesome! Those two cars are actually pretty decent I remember driving them late spring of this year. They ran all by themselves to Anderson from OBMF and from Anderson to Haysboro until they were towed off mainline to the CPrail spur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chills_on_the_train Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Curious - if those trains still had their pantographs, what would stop them from moving under their own power once plunked down on the Edmonton tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRT Posted December 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Not sure why they were removed it could have been a clearance issue? But if they really wanted to disable the pantographs it would have just popped a breaker in the articulation or disconnect the batteries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armorand Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 On 11/28/2018 at 12:11 PM, LRT said: WAIT! I want that destination sign! I'm curious, what's on the rollsign? I've seen Winnipeg Transits rollsigns and they always had hidden gems, so wondering what the Calgary Transit U2 rollsigns may hide... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRT Posted December 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 3 minutes ago, armorand said: I'm curious, what's on the rollsign? I've seen Winnipeg Transits rollsigns and they always had hidden gems, so wondering what the Calgary Transit U2 rollsigns may hide... Here you go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Walton Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 5 hours ago, chills_on_the_train said: Curious - if those trains still had their pantographs, what would stop them from moving under their own power once plunked down on the Edmonton tracks? Different track and wheels - Calgary uses streetcar rail, Edmonton standard railway rail, with wheels profiled accordingly. In the early 1980s when both systems were receiving U2s, Edmonton cars were assembled at Anderson Shops while D.L. MacDonald was being built. While at Anderson, the Edmonton cars were on shop trucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantograf Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Calgary only uses grooved rail along 7th Ave, some level crossings and within shops/garages, the rest of the system uses standard rail. Because of the groove, the flanges on the Ctrain wheels are smaller. Also, some shop and yard frogs have shallow grooves thus the reason for the Edmonton cars that have taller flanges to use the shop trucks but technically, Ctrain cars can run on standard rails as is the case when transferring cars between Haysboro and the CP spur. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRT Posted December 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Calgary's streetcar rail also has a flatter profile on the rail head then standard rail head. You can actually feel it with your foot when you walk on it at Somerset when you're Crossing CP Rail and C train rail crossing I also have a sliver of a wheel from one of the C train tires. My dad has a chunk of regular rail and I made a comparison there's quite the difference on the profile. The Calgary cars can easily be towed on the Edmonton rails.. but an Edmonton car would have to be on trucks because it would tear up the frogs in the switches because of the flange difference. Prime example would be the Calgary cars crossing into the CP spur at haysboro. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Walton Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 3 hours ago, Pantograf said: Calgary only uses grooved rail along 7th Ave, some level crossings and within shops/garages, the rest of the system uses standard rail. Because of the groove, the flanges on the Ctrain wheels are smaller. Also, some shop and yard frogs have shallow grooves thus the reason for the Edmonton cars that have taller flanges to use the shop trucks but technically, Ctrain cars can run on standard rails as is the case when transferring cars between Haysboro and the CP spur. Edmonton's choice of railway rail was dictated by the fact that for the first 5 years, until D.L. Macdonald opened, trains operated from Cromdale, and had to cross the CN mainline to enter and leave the barn. CN may have insisted on that. Once that choice was made, ETS was more or less locked into it. Another significant mod from German standard, possibly carried over to Calgary and San Diego as well: an oversize pantograph, to cope with high trolleybus overhead. That was to meet TB overhead clearance requirements, whether CN or Transport Canada I don't know. The Edmonton system had 2 LRT/TB crossings, at 95th Street just east of the tunnel portal, and 115th Avenue. Both had special work that allowed the LRT pan to cross the TB overhead at about a 45° angle. The height of the TB overhead shows in my picture of BBC 197 at 95th Street in August 1989. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Parsons Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Mark Walton said: Edmonton's choice of railway rail was dictated by the fact that for the first 5 years, until D.L. Macdonald opened, trains operated from Cromdale, and had to cross the CN mainline to enter and leave the barn. CN may have insisted on that. Once that choice was made, ETS was more or less locked into it. That's the general myth to explain the difference between the trucks on Edmonton's and Calgary's LRT fleets. If the Calgary cars and their shallower flanges could operate on Edmonton's trackage then if the Edmonton cars have used a different wheel/ flange profile surely they would have had a no problem with the CN/ ETS crossing? Lets not forget that 2066 was towed to DLM from Cromdale. Could it simply be that Edmonton went with a standard railway profile as there wasn't any planned street running sections planned when the system was designed? Personally I'm leaning towards this as the reason unless I can find an authoritative source on the matter. What I do have is this: Under the heading "Trackwork: "We started with a definite heavy rail bias in the design of the LRT system. We learned the subtleties of LRT operation and construction and the differences between heavy rail and LRT." Source: Edmonton Transit's Light Rail Transit Experience http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/sr/sr221/221-035.pdf It's worth noting that there were a few streetcar/ railway crossings in the streetcar days and girder rail in use in Edmonton which apparently didn't cause any problems for the streetcars. The details actually probably exist in George Buck's thesis "A Technical History of Edmonton Transit" 1 hour ago, Mark Walton said: Another significant mod from German standard, possibly carried over to Calgary and San Diego as well: an oversize pantograph, to cope with high trolleybus overhead. That was to meet TB overhead clearance requirements, whether CN or Transport Canada I don't know. The Edmonton system had 2 LRT/TB crossings, at 95th Street just east of the tunnel portal, and 115th Avenue. Both had special work that allowed the LRT pan to cross the TB overhead at about a 45° angle. The height of the TB overhead shows in my picture of BBC 197 at 95th Street in August 1989. While I agree on the ETB OCS clearance requirement at a railway crossing, presumably this applied to the LRT/ CN crossing as well. Additionally, the San Diego line had a freight railroad operating when the LRT trains weren't operating so they would have required to have higher mounted contact wire. Although, at the end of the day, there doesn't seem to be a big difference in size of pantographs between North American cars and the later Frankfurt cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsgeek540 Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 2029 is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicinity Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 Retired U2’s 2001, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2027, 2029, 2033, 2035, 2036, 2040, 2042, 2049, 2057, 2064, 2066, 2069, 2074, 2077, 2080, 2102 = 21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatcoinz Posted December 29, 2018 Report Share Posted December 29, 2018 Two Decommissioned Cars sit on the B/O Track at Oliver Bowen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsgeek540 Posted December 29, 2018 Report Share Posted December 29, 2018 2049 and 2074 are done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRT Posted December 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 Merry Christmas and Happy new years friends! I've been extremely busy the last few months and I haven't been able to post as much as I wanted too hopefully this will change soon in the near future. Anyway much talk about Ctrain wheels and rail profiles here. I finally have a sliver cut of a Ctrain tire and an actual chunk of CP heavy rail. Check out the difference of the Ctrain tire profile and the difference of the CP rail head profile. When I get a chance I will compare the Ctrain tire / Ctrain rail difference 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 The machined taper on the tread portion looks damn near non existent. I would infer that lateral hunting would be a problem on heavy rail. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyC62 Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 They were giving out polished versions of those tire profiles at the Doors Open YYC at Oliver Bowen a few years ago - I still have mine on a bookshelf. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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