TORONTO — Ontario transit agency Metrolinx has announced it will buy 36 new bilevel railcars from Bombardier for GO Transit.
The order will include 31 standard coaches and five accessible cars, and will add more than 6,000 new seats for GO Transit operations. The cars will be built at Bombardier’s Thunder Bay, Ont., plant, which announced in July that it would lay off workers on Nov. 4 because of a lack of orders. [See “Bombardier to lay off 550 in railroad manufacturing arm,” Trains News Wire, July 16, 2019.] There was no immediate word on how the order might affect those layoff plans.
GO Transit has operated the bilevel Bombardier cars for more than 20 years, Metrolinx notes. The new cars will include a real-time onboard diagnostic data system. Deliveries are slated to begin in fall 2020.
So. Instead of Chinese spy trains we get Canadian spy trains …
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I am surprised that GO says over 20 years. Bombardier bilevels have been running on GO lines from at least the early 1980s if not the mid-1970s which makes it closer to 40 years.
Oh those airplanes built in Renton, Washington. Spied on Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, DC (obliquely), Virginia, North Carolina (obliquely) and Tennessee. All that’s normal but might I mention out the left window I could clearly see —- meaning the spy sensors could clearly tune in on —- the southernmost county in Canada (Essex County, Ontario) at Leamington, Canada’s southernmost city.
I don’t know what the Canadians are up to in Essex County, other than the Chrysler plant and Hiram Walker further north in the county at Windsor. No Canadian Forces bases that I know of. We must recall however that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured a tomato farm in Essex County in the 1960’s. So something strange must be aboot in Essex County, eh?
Who are we as Americans to say if Canadians can spy on Canadians, A
Don’t ask me I’m just a worn out truck driver. Not any kind of expert. If you need a lawyer I’ve said where to look a bunch of times.
Yes, Anna, but the Canadians are allowed to spy on themselves so it’s okay.