The "Canadian Light Rail Vehicle" is a current streetcar model used by the Toronto Transit Commission. The Toronto Transit Commission, or TTC, is a public transport authority that operates buses, streetcars, and rapid transit lines in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
The streetcars are built by two contractors, SIG of Zurich, Switzerland and Urban Transportation Development Corporation (now Bombardier) of Millhaven, Ontario. General view showing Grossmünster church. ... The Urban Transportation Development Corporation was a corporation created in the 1970s by the Government of Ontario, Canada, to develop transit vehicles for the provinces public transit authorities. ... Bombardier Inc. ...
Motor: 2 x 185 HP continuous, 245 HP in acceleration, 370 HP in braking (rating)
Track Gauge: 4 feet, 10 and 7/8 inches
Brakes: WABCO
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Hawker Siddeley Canada proposed their version of a streetcar in the 1970's known as the Municipal Service Car, but the bus like car lost out the CLRV.
HSC was the Canadian unit of Hawker Siddeley of the UK. HSC Headquarters was in Mississauga, Ontario, the main transit plant was in Thunder Bay, Ontario. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Lightrail is generally powered by electricity, usually by means of overhead wires, but sometimes by a live rail, also called third rail (a high voltage bar alongside the track), requiring safety measures and warnings to the public not to touch it.
Lightrail systems are generally cheaper to build than heavy rail, since the infrastructure does not need to be as substantial, and tunnels are generally not required as is the case with most metro systems.
Lightrail is also notably low-impact with regards to hard-to-measure quality of life variables (except noise--q.v.), whereas highway construction has historically wreaked havoc on the social capital of neighborhoods where it occurs and leads to cases of alleged cancer clusters and noise pollution in areas directly adjacent to even moderately-traveled routes.
A lightrail employee, usually located in a control room environment, that controls the movement of an LRV within a system, maintains radio communication with all support staff, and monitors SCADA and related equipment.
A rail or other structure laid parallel with the running rail of a track to prevent wheels from being derailed; to hold wheels in correct alignment to prevent flanges from striking the points of turnout or crossing frogs or the points of switches; or to keep derailed wheels adjacent to the running rails.
A rail joint designed to arrest the flow of electric current from rail to rail by means of insulation, so placed as to separate the rail ends and other metal parts connecting them.
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