Should GO Transit electrify?

A few years back in one railroad magazine or somewhere that GO Transit was considering electrification. I think for GO TRansit, with the number of trains they run in the Toronto area, you would think that they want to reduce some operating costs.

GO now owns a former Mexican electric locomotive that they have up in Montreal for testing......after all, it's cheaper than setting up catenary in Toronto, eh?

~Ra'akone

Yeah, they do not have to tear down the catenry if they suddenly say they do not want to go ahead with this fuel-saving measure.

Electrification of GO Transit goes way back to the idea of the GO ALRT. Then again they were different trains. With what GO is using now I don't think they'll go electric.

Matthew

railfanofewu wrote:A few years back in one railroad magazine or somewhere that GO Transit was considering electrification. I think for GO TRansit, with the number of trains they run in the Toronto area, you would think that they want to reduce some operating costs.