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Friday, February 7, 2014

I call B.S.

10 comments:

MATT said...

Looks like a still-shot from a train that's moving with the doors open.

C.J. Smith said...

I don't think so. Also, the trains aren't supposed to be able to move if doors are open but then again, we have all seen a video I posted that shows that's not true.

What I took away from this is that the photographer is implying he is to alight from the train and onto the tracks. That goes against anything and everything Transit Security told me.

There's more to this story that we're just not getting.

Four Seasons said...

That happened to us once on the Richmond Hill line.
Train arrived at the RH and the door opened to the track side before opening to the platform side.

C.J. Smith said...

Go home CSA. You're drunk kind o mistake?

But you knew better than to get off!

Al said...

Im no photo expert but it does look like you can see the clumps of snow streaking as if the train is infact in motion.

C.J. Smith said...

The train is not moving. According to the photographer.

George said...

Trains will move with the doors opened if they are opened by the CSA or the engineer and a switch on the control cab is open. If that switch is closed, the train will not move with open doors. It's kind of an emergency thing. If an especially dumb commuter opens a door using the emergency openers or if a door is pried open (I've seen that near the Don Yard) the train will stop and refuse to move until the air pressure is restored and a complete check of all doors in the offending car are checked. If a door is pried open, they will not close until a panel near the door is removed and a safety switch restored to the normal position.

I'll wager the CSA opened the wrong side. It happens.

Peter said...

At what location was this photo taken? At a station? Between stations? In the rail yard, e.g. Mimico? Who submitted the photo? A passenger or Bombardier staff?

Anonymous said...

I agree with CJ that the train isn't moving, but it is indeed possible. The train is set up so the locomotive's wheel motors will not power up if a door is left open, once the doors are closed the operator and csa will receive two green lights on their control panels. To get to the point, two ways that a train can be running with open doors is either the csa cut out a broken door the wrong way and there's no pressurized air holding the door shut, or the safety system with the green lights is overridden, which a crew has done to me on my train as a PRANK, if you've seen CJ's previous post with the open door video you can see how dangerous that is.

-source: former csa

Anonymous said...

I have seen 2 door incidents in the past few years.

Last year the 7:36 out of Bramalea started moving early with all the doors open and we continued for about 20 seconds before they stopped the train. I saw a couple of people hop on while it was moving. I reported it here and a reporter from the The Star contacted me for more info but I declined to comment further.

Five years ago when the Malton platform was under construction, every day they told us that the end coaches that wouldn't open at Malton station due to work being done. One day those coaches did open and someone got off and started walking along the platform and you could see a couple of surprised construction guys stopped him to warn him to be careful walking through and surely mentioned to him that the doors shouldn't even had opened.