Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

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They'll easily do the maximum 6% grades light rail can go to. The only thing that made me think they weren't going to run the gantry all the way to the grade ramp was the lack of final column directly adjacent to the ramp like they've put in Vancouver (ok more like a concrete pad at that point)
 
Not sure it was a smart move to put both major OMFs right next to each other on the eastern end of the line. I’m imagining that if we ever wanted to do any major mulligans on the line in the far future (namely, elevating the line by Bonnie Doon), this would make it quite challenging to deploy trains to the west leg. Maybe the city should have just made the Lewis Farms facility a full-fledged OMF.
 
yeggator said:
Not sure it was a smart move to put both major OMFs right next to each other on the eastern end of the line. I’m imagining that if we ever wanted to do any major mulligans on the line in the far future (namely, elevating the line by Bonnie Doon), this would make it quite challenging to deploy trains to the west leg. Maybe the city should have just made the Lewis Farms facility a full-fledged OMF.
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I can't quite recall the details, but I read that the dispatched from the 2nd+ shops gain access to the line using the same tracks as the 1st set of shops... anybody confirm or deny?
 
yeggator said:
Not sure it was a smart move to put both major OMFs right next to each other on the eastern end of the line. I’m imagining that if we ever wanted to do any major mulligans on the line in the far future (namely, elevating the line by Bonnie Doon), this would make it quite challenging to deploy trains to the west leg. Maybe the city should have just made the Lewis Farms facility a full-fledged OMF.
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I imagine there are staffing and operational efficiencies from having both shops next to each other, but you are right about it being at the cost of redundancy.
 
SarcasticMarmot said:
I imagine there are staffing and operational efficiencies from having both shops next to each other, but you are right about it being at the cost of redundancy.
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This means transed is operating the west line as well but will trains will have to travel to Lewis farms to start service that might not be cost effective
 
Habibfazil said:
I can't quite recall the details, but I read that the dispatched from the 2nd+ shops gain access to the line using the same tracks as the 1st set of shops... anybody confirm or deny?
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Same tracks yes.
SarcasticMarmot said:
I imagine there are staffing and operational efficiencies from having both shops next to each other, but you are right about it being at the cost of redundancy.
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Maybe, maybe not. While in all likelihood TransEd will be running the WLRT as well, that doesn't necessarily mean they will also be contracted to maintain the Rotem fleet. Given the separate facilities, Edmonton could choose to maintain the cars in house, contract out to someone else. I was surprised to find out that there will be a separate AVIS shed for the Stage 2 facilities, rather than using the existing AVIS.
Yegpeople said:
This means transed is operating the west line as well but will trains will have to travel to Lewis farms to start service that might not be cost effective
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Well no, because there is the storage facility at Lewis Farms.
 
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