Raising 1,200 Metres of Train Tracks in Toronto
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Get an inside look into how the GO train line was raised 30 feet along 1200 metres!
This complicated project, headed up by Western Mechanical, used engineering expertise and custom equipment to relieve congestion at the busiest rail crossing in North America.
“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.
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.
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
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 ❤
Now that's what I'm talking about! What a great video about an exciting project. Thank you for posting.
Heartfelt congratulations to the entire team!
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.
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.
Unreal work, love seeing the solutions created for these complex problems. Killed it.
Great video! Clear and to the point, great production quality. Well done. 👍
Phenomenal work! 💪
Well shot video.
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
now that this technology is developed for this specific purpose build, is it still available to use for future such projects?
All Metro Links needs to do now is build a high-speed link using the same method.
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
Where is this intersection?
Public transit in Ontario should have been tripled long time ago! Let's not spend too much time patting ourselves on the back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not dissimilar to how they do it in China
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
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
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.
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
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!
Why weren't these guys hired for the Eg LRT?
New opening date: 2035
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.
This is a fantastic video, i like how concise it is but also showing the difficulties through out the project.
great work
1:02 LOL it didn't 😂 fantastic project though huge time saving taking the barrie line
This is why Vancouver has the skytrain elevated - don’t cheap out on grade level rail.
Busiest in North America?
LOL !!
Get over yourselves.
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.
Will it be difficult to maintain or repair?
Impressive
Fascinating!
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.
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.
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