Awsome. Wish every Ontarian watched this channel. Huge sense of pride in our infrastructure. Good on these guys and their genius solution and good on this channel for getting the word out!
@@Weaver_Games The trans-Canada railway didn't have to contend with safety standards and labour laws. The low-paid and disposable-in the eyes of the Canadian Government in the late 1800s-Chinese and Irish labourers also helped bring the cost down significantly.
I took the Go train to Barrie for the first time this past Christmas and going over this new bridge felt so seemless, like it was always supposed to have been there. Huge step forward for Go train traffic on the Barrie line! Now if we can just get the track doubled up all the way to Barrie itself so the trains dont have to wait for the current single track to clear. Also the new stations on the Barrie line within Toronto will be awesome once they are in place, it'll allow the Barrie line to act more like an express route between downtown and North York
That feeling when you find a channel that should have 600k+ subscribers and realize they only have about 1k. Sad and amazing at the same time. The algorithm has been pushing this video non stop in my feed for a coupe days and man im glad I finally click on it. Amazing work! Top notch quality. I want more! Cheers
Construction is always awesome to look specially when you people explain how you do it, if possible hopefully Toronto gets it public projects done soon, so that I don’t need to sell my kidney to travel down town. Keep up the great work you people are real hard working humble men
This is very similar to the Colne Valley viaduct that just finished being constructed for the HS2 project in England. Let's hope this can be used on other rail networks to make mass transit more viable in the future, and get more vehicles off our congested streets!
Interesting and creatively shot video, but with the constant scene shifting it was hard to figure out how they approached this project. I'd have loved a diagram showing the process so I could easily put the video into context.
Yeah, I got how the beam lift worked in basic terms, but didn't really get a feel for the layout and when they used the cantilever machine and when they didn't, and how the steel leg supports work. Did they design the legs to take more that double the normal load (installed beam, plus new beam, plus cantilever installer machine, or did the steel leg sheathing provide that extra support? A bit more detail on how that actually worked would have been good.
@@xxwookey Given the complexity of the project, the team in charge of building the bridge and the team in charge of doing the structural design would have had meetings to clearly understand the loads on the piers during construction. The piers would have been analyzed by the design engineers to ensure they could withstand the construction loads. It looks like the collars installed around the piers were used as part of the support system for the gantries that carried the girders to their end locations. It's a complex erection procedure that would have required a lot of planning and very impressive in its execution.
@@xxwookey The steel legs were installed so the machine could be extended and placed on them. It wasn't cantilevered because both ends of the machine were supported. If it was cantilevered then only one end would be held down and the other would be free. A regular crane put down the first two sections. The team then installed their machine on the first two sections and the steel support legs around the next set of concrete legs. The next two sections (one each side) are picked up by the machine, one each day, and the machine moves forward until the front rests on the steel support legs. The two new sections are laid into place. After that the base of the machine moves up a section, the steel support legs are moved ahead to the next set of concrete legs, and the process repeats until the end. They then moved the machine back to the starting position to fill in four sections in the opposite direction. While this may be a new technology for this company I've seen videos of bridges being built in Europe (and perhaps Asia) using similar machines that are cantilevered. They add sections to the bridge deck that are only attached to the existing deck on the one side. They were building a suspension bridge and there were no legs for the forward edge of the machine or piece to rest on. After the deck was completed the cables were added in order to take the mass of the traffic.
I had no idea that this astonishing bit of engineering marvellousness had been accomplished in Ontario. Never heard a peep about it. Typical Canadian keeping your light under a bushel, or whatever the saying is. Magnificent piece of enormous work. Carry on! Ought to be famous, eh?
Remember: Ontario is one of the first places in the world (over a century ago!) to have public power - and it's called "hydro" because of the way we got it. We've always got that world-class cutting edge, we've just been not boasting about it and stuffing it in people's faces as 'prowess'.
I am a critic in our infrastructure development in Ontario. This is a great project, but we need more rail to connect all of GTA and Niagara Region along western area. There is too much traffic on QEW and 403. Rail connecting all the areas along this corridor will make it easier to travel without automobiles.
having lived along the davenport diamond for 5 years, it was insane to me that residents existed with what sounded like machine gun fire at anytime of day or night for years, caused by the crossing of CP and GO train rails. The entire area is better off with this huge project almost now completed. The incredible work undertaken to thread these huge sections along tight areas is a great achievement to the workers !
Just found your channel. Awesome video! Good to see Toronto doing some complex, but highly needed, infrastructure projects. Keep up the good work. You just gained a subscriber.
Amazing ! Congrats ! Can you now extend the line towards Montréal please? This country desperately needs a high-speed train line like China, Japan, France, Taiwan , etc.
Reminds me of similar construction methods used in Melbourne, Australia over the last 5 years to build sections of new elevated rail. A lot of it was done with a roughly similar launching technique, working above an active commuter rail line.
Well, it's nice to see that GTO enlarge its trains and commuter system when in Montreal, they still discuss on the closing of train lines, the return of the tramway (20 years later, not a single project) and discover than the infrastructure of its metro has rarely being maintened and cracks... Their vision is nombrilic...
Viaduct launchers have been around for a generation (they're most prolific in building Chinese hsr viaducts), but Western's looks like a new design, very cool
The Gantry design makes me think that the Engineers were inspired by the P-811 Cement Tie & Rail Installer from British Columbia. I worked as a Welder for CNR during 1981-82. I spent a month or so working behind the P-811 in Northern Ontario on the CNR Line between Hornepayne and Nakina. The P-811 would cut into the rail and move the rail along the outside of the machine (which spanned a LONG distance). It would break up the wooden ties and stack them on the machine while installing new Cement Ties and ultimately the rail would again be lined up with the ties. My Welding Gang was responsible for Thermite Welding the ribbon rail where the P-811 cut into the rails and where they cut out at the end of each day. The P-811 had several gantries which rode on top of the rail cars with a little metal rail bridge between the ends of the rail cars and would carry new cement ties to the front of the machine and pick up the old wooden ties and deliver them to the rear of the machine where they were stacked on cars for removal. It was a very impressive setup and a great experience. The gantries in this video immediately made me think of the P-811.
This exact spot is the tightest for traffic in all of Toronto. It's like a black hole. If you get caught in stopped traffic, fold out a table cloth and order some French cuisine, you're going to be there for 2 1/2 hours.
I'm amazed there's no fencing along the edge of the rail line to seperate the work site from the danger zone. It's standard practice in other countries because it's highly effective at preventing accidental incursions by people or machinery into the path of trains.
There was very little space between the live rail and the work zone considering the type of equipment required to do the project. Definitily not enough for a dividing fence to be installed. Therefore rail safe staff was on sight 24/7, they had constant communications with rail dispatch and the trains themselves. The speed of the trains was slowed through the work zone and all workers/equipment had to be 20 feet away from the tracks 2 minutes prior to the each trains arrivial.
No? The highway is ridiculously wider, bigger, heavier. Rail may carry more people but highways are way more difficult and expensive construction. The Gardiner reconstruction is already going fast for what it is.
@@chryspelegris2731 there was a bridge in Hamilton (search Aberdeen bridge replacement Hamilton) that was replaced *in a weekend* about 10 years ago. It appears the replacement was constructed in pieces nearby and simply wheeled into place and connected, quite similarly to this project. I would think that with some forward thinking design and construction that a lot more of our transportation infrastructure could be made somewhat modular and replaced in this way, but I’m not a civil engineer so it would definitely be interesting to hear an expert opinion on it.
Amazing! 👏🏻 Could this type of system be used on the richmond hill GO line to address the challenge of don valley flood, limited speed and cn owning tracks north of 7?
It would be wonderful if you can do the same on the go line going north to Barrie, to keep the trains out of traffic, especially as they are expanding to dual track over the next years. pretty much now or never.
They are calling the self propelled modular transporters, Goldhofers after the German company that built those SPMTs, though other companies in Europe also build these SPMTs. Goldhofer is easy to pronounce compared to Scheurle
Super interesting engineering/construction job! But, how in this day-in-age the city/province chose the elevated heavy rail option is still beyond me. This rail line goes through a dense residential neighbourhood, trains expected to travel this route every 15min at peak times. I can't remember the exact price difference between this and the trenched option but it was something where around $1 billion more I believe. In no other developed country have I seen elevated rail or highway built in the last couple decades. Everyone buries this stuff now because of the noise. Poor people that live here. Meanwhile the premier musses about building a $50 billion + tunnel under the 401. I don't get it.
Building that while keeping the other line active is a cakewalk, it's like the voice over guy thinks no one has ever played a city builder game or worked construction.
bear in mind and im sure you are aware that the Co. that did this railwork is not run by (1) the federal gov (2) the provincial gov (3) the city of toronto....none of which are known for lightning reflexes on ANYTHING 'cepting partisan issues! that is sad.....
What’s funny is that you made this comment without taking 10 seconds to think of the difference between the two projects because you were so eager to engage in government bashing. This is being done *above grade* while the majority of the Eglinton subway is below grade. I agree that the Eglinton line is taking far too long, but you’re trying to compare apples and oranges, this section of track doesn’t even have a station, has little to deal with in terms of below grade infrastructure like power lines, sewers etc. nor does it require a third rail for power and isn’t having to deal with a pandemic in the middle of the project. They are using a novel method of situating the sections of track and it is very cool, and makes the work lightning fast but the scope of the project is completely different from Eglinton.
If you listen to the first thing the project manager says, Metrolinx was directly involved in this project as well. Also another person already pointed out how these are two very different projects and how your comparison doesn't work.
It's frustrating when you see a project that seemed to run very well. Compared to Eglinton LRT a billion over budget and no completion date insight. Bravo to the good people at Western Eng.
With all due respect to Western, their system looks like an adaptation of CRRC's launcher that installed thousands of km of HSR across China. Western never said their system was original but an acknowledgement seems in order.
Great doc but listen, as a classical music player. You need to lay off the Ice Road Truckers heart attack tension strings. It's annoy AF and just makes it look like trashy reality TV from a decade ago.
Great work there is huge risk here in this urban area. Looks a lot like the way they build high speed rail track in China except they use this method when they have space which you guys did not have here.
This is cool, but couldn’t we have just ordered one of those bridge girder erection machines from China that they use for building all their high speed rail stuff?
Probably not. There's a lot of very tight constraints. This is exactly why tight constraints make projects more expensive: You can't use existing solutions.
While I think the project was a good idea especially from a perspective of Safety and Efficiency, some political operatives would "find" an elevated structure (road or rail) no matter how practical, somehow "racist".... I honestly don't know why, but they will.
This project is quite small and not some kind of technological miracle. It’s been done before on a much larger scale. The Skytrain system in the greater Vancouver area has almost 100km of above ground track like this…
Working in such a narrow corridor with wider spans, and safety complications from 2 active rail lines nearby is the real difficulty. If the SkyTrain was threading a needle this is like trying to shove a pool noodle through a keyhole.
Why do we need the unnecessary, annoying, mind-numbing background "music"?? No wonder we're creating a generation of idiots that need to be entertained rather than being taught. At least let us mute the "music" without muting the real value of the video. As much as I would like to learn about this project (perhaps its shown at another site), the noise is unbearable, so exit, THUMBS DOWN!!
MADE IN USA ALWAYS POWERFUL. Western countries still have the most know how better than those china keep building " bullet " train .faster might not lasts longer especially when carrying only few passengers
You realize that those places with high speed rail use conventional speed commuter rail too, right? HSR would replace VIA's pathetic service. Projects like this one, along with electrification, will raise GO right to the global standard, well above average even for rail countries. The only pathetic part (aside from VIA) is how GO won't even partially finish that conversion 'til '41.
Putting all that hard work. Into the most out dated rail system in the modem world😂😂😂. I started taking almost 30 years ago. And still takes forever to get someone.
Should have got the Chinese to do this job. There would be less bs fanfare drama about how great you are doing this small project, while China and most countries smack these projects out without having to slap themselves on the back while looking in the mirror.
True, but we like our train tracks to not fall down due to inferior grades of steel and tofu concrete. I know it’s crazy, but we’ve developed this appreciation for life and safety in our culture. You’ll get there one day.
Thanks for your comment. We were told that fact by the railroad officals. It was (it no longer exists hence the new raised crossing) definitely one of the busiest in NA. That is an easy Google check. You tell us. Which one is the busiest? Sounds like you would know this information.
A mile west on the same CP freight line, the junction diamond was to my knowledge the most used prior to it's underpass 8ish years ago, I work right next to that intersection and trains are now every 5 to 7 mins passenger north south (GO and UP) and 2 to 3 freight per hour east west (CPKC) at peak times. I'm very positive davenport diamond was holding back GO service expansion for barrie as CP had priority.
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“Raising 30 feet along a 1200 metre corridor.” It doesn’t get more Canadian than mixing imperial and metric measurements in the same sentence.
Let me fix it for you: "Raising 9.144 meter along a 1200 meter corridor."
For US people, it's: "Raising 30 feet along a 0.746 mile corridor."
@@burggerbig102I would just round it down to 9 metres at that point. They probably rounded it up to 30 feet anyways.
In construction we use feet, in wieght at stores we use pounds, but with distance and speed otherwise we use the metric system.
They are not "Imperial Units" but they are officially called US Standard Units.
Awsome. Wish every Ontarian watched this channel. Huge sense of pride in our infrastructure. Good on these guys and their genius solution and good on this channel for getting the word out!
I watched this project for years out of my window. Fascinating.
I like that the entire trans Canada railway took 8 years to make but it takes years to raise up 1.2km of track or do 19km down Eglington.
Bigger and more powerful unions slow it down these days
@@Weaver_Games The trans-Canada railway didn't have to contend with safety standards and labour laws. The low-paid and disposable-in the eyes of the Canadian Government in the late 1800s-Chinese and Irish labourers also helped bring the cost down significantly.
I took the Go train to Barrie for the first time this past Christmas and going over this new bridge felt so seemless, like it was always supposed to have been there. Huge step forward for Go train traffic on the Barrie line! Now if we can just get the track doubled up all the way to Barrie itself so the trains dont have to wait for the current single track to clear. Also the new stations on the Barrie line within Toronto will be awesome once they are in place, it'll allow the Barrie line to act more like an express route between downtown and North York
When the line is electrified in the near future, it will raise service to a whole new level.
That feeling when you find a channel that should have 600k+ subscribers and realize they only have about 1k. Sad and amazing at the same time. The algorithm has been pushing this video non stop in my feed for a coupe days and man im glad I finally click on it. Amazing work! Top notch quality. I want more! Cheers
help spread the word; share, share, share!!!!!
no doubt, its at 72k right now, but people farting are at 150k views, YT algorithm is so messed up
I got to deliver a couple loads of the rail that went up on that deck. What a project. Well Done Western👍
Amazing engineering driven by imaginative solutions and executed by real professionals
This was a very important project in Toronto ❤
Heartfelt congratulations to the entire team!
Now that's what I'm talking about! What a great video about an exciting project. Thank you for posting.
Construction is always awesome to look specially when you people explain how you do it, if possible hopefully Toronto gets it public projects done soon, so that I don’t need to sell my kidney to travel down town.
Keep up the great work you people are real hard working humble men
I like the attitude. Yes, this is very difficult. Yes, it's doable.
Unreal work, love seeing the solutions created for these complex problems. Killed it.
Totally unbelievable! I've watched this kind of work since 1959 living in New Jersey, here in the USA. Tue. Oct. 1, 2024. St. Joseph, MO, USA.
Incredible video! Love learning about these civil projects 🥰
This is very similar to the Colne Valley viaduct that just finished being constructed for the HS2 project in England. Let's hope this can be used on other rail networks to make mass transit more viable in the future, and get more vehicles off our congested streets!
Great video! Clear and to the point, great production quality. Well done. 👍
This is a fantastic video, i like how concise it is but also showing the difficulties through out the project.
great work
Interesting and creatively shot video, but with the constant scene shifting it was hard to figure out how they approached this project. I'd have loved a diagram showing the process so I could easily put the video into context.
Yeah, I got how the beam lift worked in basic terms, but didn't really get a feel for the layout and when they used the cantilever machine and when they didn't, and how the steel leg supports work. Did they design the legs to take more that double the normal load (installed beam, plus new beam, plus cantilever installer machine, or did the steel leg sheathing provide that extra support? A bit more detail on how that actually worked would have been good.
@@xxwookey Given the complexity of the project, the team in charge of building the bridge and the team in charge of doing the structural design would have had meetings to clearly understand the loads on the piers during construction. The piers would have been analyzed by the design engineers to ensure they could withstand the construction loads. It looks like the collars installed around the piers were used as part of the support system for the gantries that carried the girders to their end locations.
It's a complex erection procedure that would have required a lot of planning and very impressive in its execution.
@@xxwookey
The steel legs were installed so the machine could be extended and placed on them. It wasn't cantilevered because both ends of the machine were supported. If it was cantilevered then only one end would be held down and the other would be free.
A regular crane put down the first two sections. The team then installed their machine on the first two sections and the steel support legs around the next set of concrete legs. The next two sections (one each side) are picked up by the machine, one each day, and the machine moves forward until the front rests on the steel support legs. The two new sections are laid into place. After that the base of the machine moves up a section, the steel support legs are moved ahead to the next set of concrete legs, and the process repeats until the end. They then moved the machine back to the starting position to fill in four sections in the opposite direction.
While this may be a new technology for this company I've seen videos of bridges being built in Europe (and perhaps Asia) using similar machines that are cantilevered. They add sections to the bridge deck that are only attached to the existing deck on the one side. They were building a suspension bridge and there were no legs for the forward edge of the machine or piece to rest on. After the deck was completed the cables were added in order to take the mass of the traffic.
I had no idea that this astonishing bit of engineering marvellousness had been accomplished in Ontario. Never heard a peep about it. Typical Canadian keeping your light under a bushel, or whatever the saying is. Magnificent piece of enormous work. Carry on! Ought to be famous, eh?
Remember: Ontario is one of the first places in the world (over a century ago!) to have public power - and it's called "hydro" because of the way we got it. We've always got that world-class cutting edge, we've just been not boasting about it and stuffing it in people's faces as 'prowess'.
I am a critic in our infrastructure development in Ontario. This is a great project, but we need more rail to connect all of GTA and Niagara Region along western area. There is too much traffic on QEW and 403. Rail connecting all the areas along this corridor will make it easier to travel without automobiles.
having lived along the davenport diamond for 5 years, it was insane to me that residents existed with what sounded like machine gun fire at anytime of day or night for years, caused by the crossing of CP and GO train rails. The entire area is better off with this huge project almost now completed. The incredible work undertaken to thread these huge sections along tight areas is a great achievement to the workers !
Just found your channel. Awesome video! Good to see Toronto doing some complex, but highly needed, infrastructure projects. Keep up the good work. You just gained a subscriber.
Cool video and absolutely necessary project!
Amazing work and amazing video production quality.
Great video and outstanding engineering work.
Kudos to the guys that do this kind of work excellent job 🎉
Phenomenal work! 💪
Amazing ! Congrats ! Can you now extend the line towards Montréal please? This country desperately needs a high-speed train line like China, Japan, France, Taiwan , etc.
now that this technology is developed for this specific purpose build, is it still available to use for future such projects?
It's the 2 months thing that blows me away... Absolutely astonished.
Reminds me of similar construction methods used in Melbourne, Australia over the last 5 years to build sections of new elevated rail. A lot of it was done with a roughly similar launching technique, working above an active commuter rail line.
Well shot video.
This is why Vancouver has the skytrain elevated - don’t cheap out on grade level rail.
Will it be difficult to maintain or repair?
Well, it's nice to see that GTO enlarge its trains and commuter system when in Montreal, they still discuss on the closing of train lines, the return of the tramway (20 years later, not a single project) and discover than the infrastructure of its metro has rarely being maintened and cracks... Their vision is nombrilic...
That was crazy. it amazes me how this stuff gets done.
Viaduct launchers have been around for a generation (they're most prolific in building Chinese hsr viaducts), but Western's looks like a new design, very cool
The Gantry design makes me think that the Engineers were inspired by the P-811 Cement Tie & Rail Installer from British Columbia. I worked as a Welder for CNR during 1981-82. I spent a month or so working behind the P-811 in Northern Ontario on the CNR Line between Hornepayne and Nakina.
The P-811 would cut into the rail and move the rail along the outside of the machine (which spanned a LONG distance). It would break up the wooden ties and stack them on the machine while installing new Cement Ties and ultimately the rail would again be lined up with the ties. My Welding Gang was responsible for Thermite Welding the ribbon rail where the P-811 cut into the rails and where they cut out at the end of each day.
The P-811 had several gantries which rode on top of the rail cars with a little metal rail bridge between the ends of the rail cars and would carry new cement ties to the front of the machine and pick up the old wooden ties and deliver them to the rear of the machine where they were stacked on cars for removal. It was a very impressive setup and a great experience.
The gantries in this video immediately made me think of the P-811.
Sure would be nice to watch if you know of any videos made of your said project🙂
Incredible job! fast and lower cost
This exact spot is the tightest for traffic in all of Toronto. It's like a black hole. If you get caught in stopped traffic, fold out a table cloth and order some French cuisine, you're going to be there for 2 1/2 hours.
I'm amazed there's no fencing along the edge of the rail line to seperate the work site from the danger zone.
It's standard practice in other countries because it's highly effective at preventing accidental incursions by people or machinery into the path of trains.
There was very little space between the live rail and the work zone considering the type of equipment required to do the project. Definitily not enough for a dividing fence to be installed. Therefore rail safe staff was on sight 24/7, they had constant communications with rail dispatch and the trains themselves. The speed of the trains was slowed through the work zone and all workers/equipment had to be 20 feet away from the tracks 2 minutes prior to the each trains arrivial.
couldnt this concept be used for expediting the repairs of the gardiner expressway?
If you want to shut down the gardener probably
Yes, but it would require the shutdown of the Expressway, which would probably be hell.
It's a bit late now but note how building a trench expressway like Decarie in Montreal is the best choice.
No? The highway is ridiculously wider, bigger, heavier. Rail may carry more people but highways are way more difficult and expensive construction.
The Gardiner reconstruction is already going fast for what it is.
@@chryspelegris2731 there was a bridge in Hamilton (search Aberdeen bridge replacement Hamilton) that was replaced *in a weekend* about 10 years ago. It appears the replacement was constructed in pieces nearby and simply wheeled into place and connected, quite similarly to this project. I would think that with some forward thinking design and construction that a lot more of our transportation infrastructure could be made somewhat modular and replaced in this way, but I’m not a civil engineer so it would definitely be interesting to hear an expert opinion on it.
Where is this intersection?
Amazing! 👏🏻 Could this type of system be used on the richmond hill GO line to address the challenge of don valley flood, limited speed and cn owning tracks north of 7?
Fascinating!
Will they electrify the rail lines to Barrie in the future for electric trains?
It would be wonderful if you can do the same on the go line going north to Barrie, to keep the trains out of traffic, especially as they are expanding to dual track over the next years. pretty much now or never.
And that, gentlemen, is how we do that. Awesome.
Impressive
They are calling the self propelled modular transporters, Goldhofers after the German company that built those SPMTs, though other companies in Europe also build these SPMTs. Goldhofer is easy to pronounce compared to Scheurle
Super interesting engineering/construction job! But, how in this day-in-age the city/province chose the elevated heavy rail option is still beyond me. This rail line goes through a dense residential neighbourhood, trains expected to travel this route every 15min at peak times. I can't remember the exact price difference between this and the trenched option but it was something where around $1 billion more I believe. In no other developed country have I seen elevated rail or highway built in the last couple decades. Everyone buries this stuff now because of the noise. Poor people that live here. Meanwhile the premier musses about building a $50 billion + tunnel under the 401. I don't get it.
I'm in Toronto and didn't even realize this was being built
All Metro Links needs to do now is build a high-speed link using the same method.
how much was spent? what do we got? does it worth?
Building that while keeping the other line active is a cakewalk, it's like the voice over guy thinks no one has ever played a city builder game or worked construction.
Impressive!
What if a borer could do this in much shorter time, cost and disruption?
These guys did all that in 2 months, meanwhile metrolinx is faffing about with the Eglington crosstown for going on 12 years. How pathetic.
bear in mind and im sure you are aware that the Co. that did this railwork is not run by (1) the federal gov (2) the provincial gov (3) the city of toronto....none of which are known for lightning reflexes on ANYTHING 'cepting partisan issues! that is sad.....
What’s funny is that you made this comment without taking 10 seconds to think of the difference between the two projects because you were so eager to engage in government bashing. This is being done *above grade* while the majority of the Eglinton subway is below grade. I agree that the Eglinton line is taking far too long, but you’re trying to compare apples and oranges, this section of track doesn’t even have a station, has little to deal with in terms of below grade infrastructure like power lines, sewers etc. nor does it require a third rail for power and isn’t having to deal with a pandemic in the middle of the project. They are using a novel method of situating the sections of track and it is very cool, and makes the work lightning fast but the scope of the project is completely different from Eglinton.
If you listen to the first thing the project manager says, Metrolinx was directly involved in this project as well. Also another person already pointed out how these are two very different projects and how your comparison doesn't work.
@@AyesC9000 When is the Eglinton line supposed to open now?
@@appa609 yes
Why weren't these guys hired for the Eg LRT?
New opening date: 2035
It's frustrating when you see a project that seemed to run very well. Compared to Eglinton LRT a billion over budget and no completion date insight. Bravo to the good people at Western Eng.
1:02 LOL it didn't 😂 fantastic project though huge time saving taking the barrie line
I hope they use this system to replace the Gardner
Great method. The Chinese have been building the high speed rail lines using this method for years!
With all due respect to Western, their system looks like an adaptation of CRRC's launcher that installed thousands of km of HSR across China. Western never said their system was original but an acknowledgement seems in order.
That music was completely unnecessary.
5:30 damn
CPKC trains are so infrequent.
Public transit in Ontario should have been tripled long time ago! Let's not spend too much time patting ourselves on the back.
Should be free
Great doc but listen, as a classical music player. You need to lay off the Ice Road Truckers heart attack tension strings. It's annoy AF and just makes it look like trashy reality TV from a decade ago.
Yeah that vibe was quite annoying.
Rah, Rah, Rah!🥳🤗😎🙄
5:27 One mishap and you're just a red, wet spot.
Great work there is huge risk here in this urban area. Looks a lot like the way they build high speed rail track in China except they use this method when they have space which you guys did not have here.
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The Chinese, in some areas spanning valleys, were doing everything from the rail line on top of very high columns with no help from the ground.
That’s engineering for you - find and use the solution that works🙂
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Not dissimilar to how they do it in China
This is cool, but couldn’t we have just ordered one of those bridge girder erection machines from China that they use for building all their high speed rail stuff?
Temu?
Probably not. There's a lot of very tight constraints. This is exactly why tight constraints make projects more expensive: You can't use existing solutions.
We banned tofu construction decades ago. It’s inferior and dangerous.
great stuff. great video. but as a grumpy old man I say lose the stupid music
I wonder if this ‘progressive extension’ approach doesn’t owe some credit to Chinese construction techniques.
While I think the project was a good idea especially from a perspective of Safety and Efficiency, some political operatives would "find" an elevated structure (road or rail) no matter how practical, somehow "racist".... I honestly don't know why, but they will.
This project is quite small and not some kind of technological miracle. It’s been done before on a much larger scale. The Skytrain system in the greater Vancouver area has almost 100km of above ground track like this…
thought so too... but we're celebrating all these baby steps i guess? 😭😭
Working in such a narrow corridor with wider spans, and safety complications from 2 active rail lines nearby is the real difficulty. If the SkyTrain was threading a needle this is like trying to shove a pool noodle through a keyhole.
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Music is really over done
Why do we need the unnecessary, annoying, mind-numbing background "music"?? No wonder we're creating a generation of idiots that need to be entertained rather than being taught. At least let us mute the "music" without muting the real value of the video. As much as I would like to learn about this project (perhaps its shown at another site), the noise is unbearable, so exit, THUMBS DOWN!!
The narrator sounds like p.p. Very off putting.
MADE IN USA ALWAYS POWERFUL. Western countries still have the most know how better than those china keep building " bullet " train .faster might not lasts longer especially when carrying only few passengers
Pathetic, the rest of the world has high speed rail and we're riding around on this piece of crap like it's an engineering marvel.
HSR is a guaranteed money loser everywhere in the world except one line in Japan. For a real laugh see California's abandoned mistake. Try again.
You realize that those places with high speed rail use conventional speed commuter rail too, right?
HSR would replace VIA's pathetic service. Projects like this one, along with electrification, will raise GO right to the global standard, well above average even for rail countries. The only pathetic part (aside from VIA) is how GO won't even partially finish that conversion 'til '41.
The chinese built their high speed rail network using leapfrogging. This is not new or innovative.
Awwwe shocks 😅😅
Pretty sure that's not the difficult part. Nothing revolutionary here, but still counts as innovation.
Lol
Putting all that hard work. Into the most out dated rail system in the modem world😂😂😂. I started taking almost 30 years ago. And still takes forever to get someone.
Yeah it seems like it wasn't able to get you to school
This should have taken mere weeks to do 😂 why are u proud
Should have got the Chinese to do this job.
There would be less bs fanfare drama about how great you are doing this small project, while China and most countries smack these projects out without having to slap themselves on the back while looking in the mirror.
True, but we like our train tracks to not fall down due to inferior grades of steel and tofu concrete. I know it’s crazy, but we’ve developed this appreciation for life and safety in our culture. You’ll get there one day.
Busiest in North America?
LOL !!
Get over yourselves.
This is nowhere close to the busiest diamond in North America lmao. Please fact check.
Thanks for your comment. We were told that fact by the railroad officals. It was (it no longer exists hence the new raised crossing) definitely one of the busiest in NA. That is an easy Google check. You tell us. Which one is the busiest? Sounds like you would know this information.
A mile west on the same CP freight line, the junction diamond was to my knowledge the most used prior to it's underpass 8ish years ago, I work right next to that intersection and trains are now every 5 to 7 mins passenger north south (GO and UP) and 2 to 3 freight per hour east west (CPKC) at peak times. I'm very positive davenport diamond was holding back GO service expansion for barrie as CP had priority.
It definitely was
10:22 I find it funny that this guy has no intention of using the project he helped build, saying that he will drive by
well sounds like it's more for ppl who live in Barrie