I’ve been near the station and yes, it’s a high level platform. The platform seems to be at almost the same height as the REM platforms
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Work on the Exo rails is scheduled from October 2024 to Spring 2025. Do we think that they could open the station without the Exo correspondence, or is this basically confirmation that the few of us who were hoping for a winter opening might have grasping at straws? 
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I don’t think winter opening was ever confirmed as possible considering required testing
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I know, just messing around. Still hopeful for a late spring opening tho 
Les rails au sol en attente d’être installés me font penser à des pâtes fraîches…
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C’est à peu près ça que c’est. Des rails, c’est extrêmement flexible.
Does anyone know what the multiple rails are going to be used for behind the station? As far as I know it won’t be for CN since the rails from cote de liesse to the CN line belong to exo/CDPQ and can’t handle freight due to the high platform at CDL, so what could exo need all the storage space for?
Trains out of the morning rush-hour will be parked there, waiting for the evening rush-hour.
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Did they really need more than just 1-2 tracks to handle the 1-2 Mascouche line trains?
There is 5 departures in the morning towards Montreal, and only one train come back. So yeah, I guess they need at least 4 tracks to park them ! Or 2 tracks long enough for 2 trains.
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While the current operation model does require those tracks, the reality is that we really should change the way that we operate our commuter trains. We really need to move to all day two way service. The fact is that the commuter patterns have been changing and there needs to be a recognition of that. It would also serve other types of trips such as shopping and leisure which fall outside of the hours of the current operating pattern. Once the REM is fully operational, I think that the REM will show quite conclusively that there is a demand for such trips, if we serve them adequately.
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The fact that candiac line has a special argument with a museum just to allow counter rush service should be proof enough… I literally had to use via rail to be able to get to MSH in counter rush… And the sucky part of the VH counter rush being “express service” only also sucks…
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I find it hilarious – and sad – that they’re just building old-school tracks with creosote timber ties instead of concrete, even though freight trains will never run on this segment:
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Probably a requirement to be allowed to interface with CN rail?
Did we used the old Mascouche switch track or its a newly built one?
I am curious: why is it sad?
Le créosote est interdit au Canada depuis 2011. À moins que ce soit des vieilles traverses sinon c’est avec un autre matériau.
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Belle prise – je l’ai utilisé familièrement. « Traverses en bois traité » serait générique et correct.
Because they built their three tracks right next door using modern methods – they could have just as easily used the same methods (adjusting for axle load as necessary) to build this small segment that will only ever see a short, partially-laden commuter train that makes a handful of runs a day.
It just seems that everything CDPQinfra does is the absolute bare minimum to meet the mandates they were given, from the botched Bois-Franc transfer station to the lack of cooled air in the stations; to eschewing escalators at many stations; to not bothering to push for the Dorval extension (more riders = more money). Heck, they were ready to use the MR tunnel with just minor changes, until they were forced to bring it up to modern safety standards!
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Exo would have been forced to do the same work in the tunnel eventually + in emergency mode and closing Ste-Catherine street over the tunnel due to salt ravages even worse than what CPDQ discovered.
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