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Leslie Barns is the newest streetcar yard in Toronto, opening in 2015 and with capacity for over 250 streetcars. Let’s go behind the scenes to see all that goes into maintaining the amazing legacy system!
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can you try to visit gothenburg
Day 22 of me asking RMTransit to make a video about San Diegos transit network
Very nice video — high quality & interesting.
How much of the network is using pantographs now? You said most of it has been converted over?
What y'all think about a green yard. I always think a train yard has too much concrete. Is there a significant benefit of all this concrete or can we have just normal ground?
toronto's bombardier streetcars are really cool! the only thing i wish was different is that they had doors on both sides and had 7 sections instead of 5 for additional capacity.
There are two places the streetcars go to sleep. The Leslie Yard and the intersection at College and Lansdowne, which just happens to be right next to a Timmies.
Day 3 of asking Reese to cover the South Wales Metro
Those facilities help a lot to prevent vandalism. In cities like New York City vandalized trains are repaired immediately, because most vandals will not damage a train that does not already show damage.
This is cool. I wonder if one day the New York Transit Museum would do a tour of the massive Coney Island Yard. That would be epic!
RMTransit. Ask MTA to do a press tour of the Coney Island Maintenance Facility and Yard.
This was a great video! I work closely to aviation so I'm used to the maintenance done to airplane which has its own complexity and size but the size of the tram multiplied by the number of cars make this shop incredible and much bigger than I would have expected. In comparison the REM maintenance shop in Brossard seems tiny!
I don’t think enough people realize how important the environment is for workers in an industrial setting. Good lighting, comfortable climate control, color, nice landscaping, etc. Too many industrial workplaces are like dungeons.
Happy workers make safer workers. In this case, they also make transit safer.
The streetcar network should be abolished
VIA is also getting a new maintenance building with a similar design for the new Siemens trainsets.
I've worked in aviation for a couple of decades, and man this is a nice facility. I wish our hangars were this nice. Maybe I should switch my career to another transport mode! 😅
Kudos to the TTC for valuing design for those both within and outside of the facility! Every space/place deserves well designed architecture, even what we might consider industrial or utilitarian, and such design pays great dividends. 🙂 Thanks Reece for the peek within!
Were you attacked by any of the hundreds of seagulls that are on top of the roof? It's usually littered with flocks of them!
make the stretcars faster please ?
I was part of the construction team on this project.
that's cool af
I've always wondered if streetcars could be used on the LRT 5 and 6, and vise versa (assuming they're compatible w each other like power and track and maps)
Is that a bird sitting on the ground at 7:00?
So interesting! I ride the TTC almost everyday and it’s great to see the massive, silent infrastructure behind the system! Thanks 🙏
That was great Reece.
Fishbowls? Those musta been a treat to maintain, especially in winter…
Absolutely loved the video! I can only click the thumbs up one time, but I definitely give it two thumbs up!! Very interesting and informative! It was so interesting, I could have watched a video that was twice as long! Thanks!!
Perfect example of canadian transit- shiny and new and yet no ROW
I remember this place being under construction for quite a while, I'd frequently see it as I would go to the Canadian tire nearby quite often. If I remember right this was quite a while before the current low floor streetcars were even in regular service, only being tested I think, around 2017 or 18? Part of me still misses seeing those old CLRVs at the Russel car house.
I wish Boston's MBTA was as conscientious at maintaining its transit vehicles 😭😢
Seeing the behind the scenes of these facilities makes you respect how much of an effort it takes to keep these systems running on a daily basis because it's way more complex than it seems! Teamwork makes the dream work, as they say! Further shows that these systems really are feats! As someone who has taken the LIRR a lot, this is especially true with the LIRR. Hillside is the major maintenance facility and covers 30 acres! It opened in 1991 on a section of Holban Yard that was built in 1906 and was named for Hollis and St. Albans. The Hillside facility also covers the sites of the former Rockaway Junction, Hillside, and Willow Tree stations, with the latter being the location of the employee-only platforms!
Another cool facility is the Morris Park facility or Boland's Landing on the Atlantic Branch. The facility opened in November 1889 and was used for train storage for over a century until the 1990s when it switched to being used for maintaining and refueling diesel locomotives and diesel electric locomotives. Its 1889 locomotive shop with a roundhouse was reconstructed between 2018 and 2020, and is home to the last functioning turntable on Long Island! There are other turntables in Oyster Bay and Greenport but those two are preserved as part of different railroad museums. The Riverhead branch of the Railroad Museum of LI used to have a preserved turntable as well but now it's just a visual remain.
Well, I grew up in two cities that had extensive PCC streetcars (Pittsburgh & DC). Seems to me that "maintenance" wasn't such a big deal "in the day." Back then (in those two places) the systems were own and operated by private companies which were able to collaborate and produce a base design of cars that lasted decades.
Sorry, but I'm not impressed by the "modern" transit systems.
One day can you make a video on Newcastle transport please?
I would love to see a video on BC Ferries or just the mode of ferries in general, as far as I can tell they’ve never been highlighted on you channel.
Very interesting tour!
Are there differences between the original 204 Flexity Outlook streetcars and the newer 60 coming in?