It's Monday May 8th 2023 in the county of Brant, Ontario.
Would you like to see my most exciting Catch of the Day?
Hi there! I'm at Bethel Church Road at Dundas sub and it's a beautiful
day to be Trackside... in fact here comes the VIA
and that was great, but then we heard the detector:
"North, no alarms.
Temperature: 17 C
Total Axles:1-0
Speed: 3-0
and we're thinking "total Axle 10,
speed 30" (miles per hour)? That's got to be a mistake...
but sure enough we see a headlight. It's moving awfully slowly... that could
be 30 miles an hour. So what is it?
We are in the county of Brant, Ontario which as you can see is not on Amtrak system map
did you see that?
what was an Amtrak doing out here?!
Hoping to get the chance to catch it again, we drove 15 minutes down the road to Paris Ontario
Detector: Axle 1-0. Speed: 3-0."
30 miles an hour he's doing
Well that's the end of the "chase part" of the video.
Now would you like to know what this Amtrak was doing here?
Here comes the "research part".
There is a place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada called the National Research Council, and at the
NRC they have an indoor climate testing facility. So under controlled conditions they can test snow,
rain, freezing rain, ice and other winter conditions on lots of things including rail cars.
The first Venture coach was tested by the NRC between October of 2019 and February of 2020.
It was a Caltrans Amtrak California coach wearing the Siemens reporting Mark SIIX 9024
The coach that we saw on Monday Midwest Amtrak car SIIX 4301 was brought up to
Ottawa for some cold weather testing after Siemens made some modifications to the Amtrak Midwest cars
because they were not delivering as promised.
These photos, taken six months ago in December of 2022,
show the first part of the special one-car move of the single Siemens Venture car
that is traveling from Sacramento California to the Ontario research campus.
Thank you to Greg Gormick and to trains.com for the information.
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