11-20-2014, 09:09 PM
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#281
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Transit is really having a bad day. Won't be fun leaving the dome if you want to take transit.
Calgary Transit @calgarytransit 1 minute ago
CTRAIN ALERT: No train service running along 7th Ave. Shuttle buses are in place along 6th Ave and 9th Ave. *RP
Calgary Transit @calgarytransit 7 minutes ago
CTRAIN ALERT: Shuttles will run along 6th Ave (West) and 9th Ave (East). 201 btwn Stampede and 8th St, 202 btwn Bridgeland and Kerby. *RP
SarBear @SarKittyMcMeow · 17 minutes ago
Um..... @calgarytransit HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN
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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Dude when it comes to the Canucks, it could be a team of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, Josef Stalin and Kim Jong Il and if one of them scores against the Canucks you take it.
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Last edited by jschick88; 11-20-2014 at 09:15 PM.
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11-20-2014, 09:12 PM
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#282
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Apartment 5A
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Did it derail?
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11-20-2014, 09:13 PM
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#283
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how does that happen? 
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Originally Posted by MisterJoji
Johnny eats garbage and isn’t 100% committed.
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11-20-2014, 09:15 PM
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#284
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Originally Posted by nik-
how does that happen? |
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11-20-2014, 09:15 PM
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#285
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by nik-
how does that happen? |
I know right? How did some one manage to take a colour photo using a potato?
I'm baffled too.
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11-20-2014, 09:16 PM
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#286
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Franchise Player
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Unbelievable.
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11-20-2014, 09:18 PM
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#287
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by jaydorn
I know right? How did some one manage to take a colour photo using a potato?
I'm baffled too.
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Must be GMO's. No wonder people want them banned.
That train had to have taken a heck of a hop to jump off the track and onto the platform. The platform is what, a good 2 feet away from the track most times?
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11-20-2014, 09:24 PM
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#288
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Daniel Läntelä @Lantelavision 1 minute ago
Ctrain has hit the platform at WB City Hall station. #yyc
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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Dude when it comes to the Canucks, it could be a team of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, Josef Stalin and Kim Jong Il and if one of them scores against the Canucks you take it.
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11-20-2014, 09:26 PM
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#289
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Fantasy Island
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But seriously though. That shouldn't happen. 
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comfortably numb
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11-20-2014, 09:31 PM
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#291
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C-Trains should never try to rail slide. Do we need to rivet strips of metal on those platforms?
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Originally Posted by MisterJoji
Johnny eats garbage and isn’t 100% committed.
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11-20-2014, 09:44 PM
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#292
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Well, that's a new one.
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11-20-2014, 09:54 PM
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#293
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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That looks expensive.
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11-20-2014, 10:10 PM
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#294
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Franchise Player
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C train driver play too much Tony Hawk lately?
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11-20-2014, 10:25 PM
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#295
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When it rains, it pours. At least this happened after Rush Hour.
City Hall Station is jinxed.
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11-21-2014, 01:47 AM
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#296
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Royal Oak
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It was not a fun day to be a transit operator...
If I were to venture a guess on how the trail derailed, I would guess there was some kind of error with the switches on the approach to City Hall station. But that is just a guess.
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11-21-2014, 08:00 AM
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Not Taylor
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary SW
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An actual informative and insightful comment on a news comments section!
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MASSEY JONES Guest
<LI class=vf-rank>Rank 348What I surmise, given 60 years around track work is that the train (line 202) advanced across 7th Avenue from 3 St SE, while the turnout (switch) was still set for the train which had just come from the south (Route 201).
In other words, the turnout wasn't set for the 202 to proceed through.
So, the train jumped the turnout and the leading right front wheel, while striking the turnout, made the right front of the train side rise and caused the train to lurch left a bit, causing the train to strike and mount the platform.
The investigation will determine if it was operator error (he departed before the CTrain signal was green and the turnout fully set, even though he had a green traffic light) or a malfunction of the switch machine, which didn't activate the turnout properly to line up the points, so that the train could proceed straight ahead as it's designed to do.
Alternately, The CTrain signal turned green and so did the traffic light but the relay failed to activate the switch machine, thereby not fully closing the points to allow safe passage through the turnout, thereby leaving the track in the position that they had been when the last 201 westbound went through. Or the CTrain signal gave a false signal. It could even be at the control centre.
The train will be fixed with a bit of fiberglass and perhaps some wheels replaced. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries.
The delay might be in replacing the turnout. A lot of it will be probably be done overnight (Thursday/Friday) and ideally the line will be opened.
Otherwise, trains may be running on the southbound track only downtown and that is a lot of inconvenience for everyone.
The other two accidents happened through inattention.
Trying to beat the train.
Not the first time at either location.
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11-21-2014, 08:27 AM
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by Ben_in_Canada
Yikes, Global reported that witness reports have the pedestrian being hit by two trains!
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I'm sorry (not really) but if he thought he could beat one train and didn't see TWO trains coming, he kinda deserved it. DARWINISM!
in other news, he's still alive.
Last edited by jwslam; 11-21-2014 at 08:29 AM.
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11-21-2014, 12:22 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Two in a day. This happened a year or two ago, didn't it? But both were vehicles, IIRC.
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Yes, this thread was started that day.
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11-21-2014, 02:25 PM
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#300
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Lifetime Suspension
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All these car/truck vs train idiots should have their names and photos posted in the newspapers. There is no excuse.
The pedestrians who get hit are also idiots but often end up disfigured or dead so it would be cruel to shame them like the car/truck drivers.
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