Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

[EdwardEdm]

TransEd's Freightliner hi-rail was pushing and pulling 2024 around the yard this morning. I suspect it was testing the connection between Building A and Building B trackage, but didn't actually see it doing it so cannot confirm.

Given the flatbed of the Freightliner was filled with among other things tanks, and Davies Station had some standing water in places with some freshly cleaned areas of the trackbed, it seems they were pressure washing at Davies during off hours.

 

[The_Cat]

The elevated track makes WEM look more like Disneyland (with the monorail).

 

[ADob]

A major construction milestone for the Valley Line West LRT was marked on Wednesday, with all concrete segments being set in place for the elevated guideway along 87 Avenue.

Edmonton officials and Marigold, the company contracted for the LRT project, celebrated the achievement by bidding farewell to the 400-tonne gantry crane used to hoist the concrete.

Valley Line West LRT hits construction milestone with section along West Edmonton Mall

A major construction milestone for the Valley Line West LRT was marked on Wednesday, with all concrete segments being set in place for the elevated guideway along 87 Avenue.

www.ctvnews.ca

I'll miss the big guy. I admit I've never before nerded out so hard about a piece of construction machinery, but watching the gantry crane do its job was faaaaabulous!

 

[archited]

If ever there was a prime place for TOD Mixed-use this has to be it. Too bad 555 tied up their capital potential on mega projects south of the border; they sure could use some financial flexibility here. This is the closest thing to a development no-brainer that I have ever seen.

 

[Agard]

Along with those apartments just south of the Misericordia

 

[The_Cat]

I could see six-storey complexes there.

 

[yeggator]

I'll miss the big guy. I admit I've never before nerded out so hard about a piece of construction machinery, but watching the gantry crane do its job was faaaaabulous!

Hope we see the gantry come back to the city for the Metro Line Extension.

 

[CplKlinger]

Hope we see the gantry come back to the city for the Metro Line Extension.

Hear me out now: instead of a fancy bridge across Walker Yard, we just build a really tall elevated guideway haha.

 

[yeggator]

Hear me out now: instead of a fancy bridge across Walker Yard, we just build a really tall elevated guideway haha.

Well, real talk, I was thinking we run it east on the median of Yellowhead Trail on a guideway and then cross the tracks at 97th Street, where the railyard isn’t a light-year wide.

 

[J_gordo]

Hear me out now: instead of a fancy bridge across Walker Yard, we just build a really tall elevated guideway haha.

This honestly will probably be cheaper than the $1B cable stayed bridge they currently have

 

[Glenco]

This honestly will probably be cheaper than the $1B cable stayed bridge they currently have

CN will have something to say about this. Having a series of supports across their rail yards would be unacceptable

 

[The_Cat]

It sounds like CN is reticent on co-operation. The CPR/CPKC wouldn’t give up the High Level Bridge.

 

[MacLac]

 

[wormwood]

Some of my favourite gantry pics from over the years:

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Fun fact from the Valley Line West newsletter today that before being used on the Valley Line West, this crane was used to build infrastructure at Expo 2020 Dubai. Shipped to Vancouver after, then to Edmonton.

 

[Wax]

First permanent lights in place along stony plain rd (that ive seen)
The rest 102 ave MUP was getting poured as well.