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The Flexity Outlook is the latest model of streetcar in the rolling stock of the Toronto streetcar system owned by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). Based on the Bombardier Flexity, they were first ordered in 2009 and were built by Bombardier Transportation in Thunder Bay and Kingston, Ontario, with specific modifications for Toronto, such as unidirectional operation and the ability to ...
Too tight a 'crest' curve could result in the train leaving the track as it drops away beneath it; too tight a 'trough' and the train will plough downwards into the rails and damage them. More precisely, the support force R exerted by the track on a train as a function of the curve radius r, the train mass m, and the speed v, is given by
Newer bored mainline tunnel south of York University station A surface section of Line 1 in the median of Allen Road. The TTC's heavy rail lines – Lines 1, 2, and 4 – are built to the unique Toronto gauge of 4 ft 10 + 7 ⁄ 8 in (1,495 mm), which is the same gauge used on the city's streetcar system.
The Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo vehicles will contain five modules, while those in Edmonton have seven modules. Vehicles can be coupled and operated as trains of up to four connected vehicles. The maximum passenger capacities, in the standard seating layouts, are 135 and 251, for the three and five-module configurations respectively.
Toronto-gauge railways are tram and rapid transit lines built to Toronto gauge, a broad gauge of 4 ft 107⁄8 in (1,495 mm). This is 23⁄8 in (60 mm) wider than standard gauge of 4 ft 81⁄2 in (1,435 mm) which is by far the most common track gauge in Canada. The gauge is unique to the Greater Toronto Area and is currently used on the Toronto ...
Track gauge. 4 ft 10 + 7⁄8 in (1,495 mm) The Toronto Rocket (TR) is the fifth and latest series of rolling stock used in the Toronto subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Owned and operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the trains were built by Bombardier Transportation in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to replace the last remaining H ...
Based on 2013 statistics, the TTC operated 304.6 kilometres (189.3 mi) [2] of routes on 82 kilometres (51 mi) streetcar network (double or single track) throughout Toronto. [ 5 ] [ 2 ] As of July 28, 2024 [update] , there are eleven active daytime streetcar routes plus seven overnight streetcar routes (part of the Blue Night Network ) on the ...
Track gauge. 4 ft 10 + 7⁄8 in (1,495 mm) The T series, also known as the T-1, is the fourth series of rapid transit rolling stock used in the subway system of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were ordered by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in 1992 and built in one production set between 1995 and 2001 by Bombardier Transportation in Thunder ...