3 ms·
Wow, that's way shorter than here in the Netherlands. AFAIK, rolling stock over here is revised after ~20 years, after which it goes back in service for another
by Tijdreiziger 5y ago
Wow, that's way shorter than here in the Netherlands. AFAIK, rolling stock over here is revised after ~20 years, after which it goes back in service for another ~20 years before being retired.
- kps 5y agoCanada has cars over 70 years old in regular service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Via_Rail_rolling_stock#Stainless_steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Via_Rail_rolling_stock...
- sandworm101 5y agoCanada's passenger rail system is not exactly a market leader. It is ossified, as it seems are most of its customers. And given the distances and terrain between major Canadian cities, trains will just never win out against air travel.
- SECProto 5y ago> And given the distances and terrain between major Canadian cities, trains will just never win out against air travel. With a pretty major possible exception on the Windsor-Quebec City corridor. Large fraction of Canada's population in a span of ~1200km. Particularly the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal span with (metro area) population totally ~11 million over 600km, a Shinkansen-speed rail would be very competitive against air travel. They're working on high frequency rail (which will also increase speeds to ~160km/hr), which should be closer to competitive, but still not great.
- johncoltrane 5y agoThis is more or less how it works almost everywhere. As an example, the model identifiers in use by the Paris Metro have the year of the _order_ in them and we still have MP59 trains running on line 11. They have been modernised and refurbished a few times, of course, but that's 63 years of service. Talk about a ROI.
- touisteur 5y agoProbably waiting for automated metro to come over to replace those cars, stretching them last service years as much as possible.
- johncoltrane 5y agoModern trains, yes, but with drivers, in 22-23.