San Francisco Muni LRV 4: A taste of Calgary

05 Saturday Jan 2019

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Riding in one of San Francisco’s newest light-rail vehicles while on vacation there, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of familiarity.

San Francisco’s Muni LRVs are made by Siemens and, despite differences in door and seating configuration, are in fact the same high-floor model as the newest light-rail cars purchased by Calgary Transit. The similarities are definitely there, from the whine of the motors to the station announcement chime … and even the malfunctioning passenger information system. (Calgary Transit’s CTrain displays work but sometimes show the wrong time or station information; Muni’s displays were simply off when I rode their light-rail trains.)

The photo above shows a Muni light-rail Metro train operating on the N line, departing from Ocean Beach.

Refreshed look

21 Sunday Oct 2018

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Some of the new iconography slowly being rolled out at Calgary’s CTrain stations.

Transit mall

04 Friday May 2018

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A Calgary CTrain light rail vehicle travels westbound on 7th Avenue at 1st Street S.W.

Hold on for your safety

09 Friday Jun 2017

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Shadows cast inside Calgary Transit’s venerable U-2 series light rail transit vehicles, snapped on my commute a few days ago.

Red signals

07 Tuesday Mar 2017

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A view of downtown Calgary from Sunalta CTrain station, the only elevated light-rail station on the Calgary Transit network. Snapped a few weeks ago.

Getting Calgary Transit moving again

26 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Calgary Transit workers remove debris from the LRT tunnel north of Victoria Park/Stampede station that was submerged to the ceiling during the height of the flooding.

Calgary Transit’s downtown infrastructure took it on the chin during the record flooding over the last week.
Here are some photos I snapped of the damage and of the work being done to get things moving again.

More work done near Victoria Park/Stampede station. And yes, those tracks are really suspended in mid-air!

Floodwaters carried away the ballast beneath the platform at Victoria Park/Stampede station.

Crews work to restore the Cemetery Hill tunnel, above and next two images.

Buses put into service as a C-Train shuttle roam on a very dusty Macleod Trail on June 25.

On track to fresh visual perspectives

04 Monday Feb 2013

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I often wonder if most people who use Calgary’s light rail system notice the art that exists intrinsically all around them.
Well, there are six Calgarians who most certainly do. Flickr friends and photographers (above, from left) James Tworow, Linda M. Cunningham, Nathalie Babineau-Griffiths, Wanda Martin and Dave King, along with Ian Proctor (not present), share their visual insights from the newly opened west leg of Calgary’s LRT system.
Their photo exhibition, One Place, Six Perspectives, demonstrates the innate artistic richness of Calgary’s newest C-Train stations, which stretch 8.2 km westward from downtown.
Swing by for a look and you, too, will see how transit can be more than just trains, buses, bricks and mortar.
One Place, Six Perspectives takes place on the walls of Pages Books in Kensington until the end of April.
P.S.: The group’s photos are also available for sale.