samedi, mai 05, 2007

Recherche d'un train Expo Express

Alors voilà, pleins de gens me disent qu'il y a, dans un champs à St-Lazare, au Québec, un train de l'Expo Express (oui, encore Expo 67) qui rouille tranquillement. Si vous avez des infos, hésitez pas à me les envoyer d'ailleurs...

Mais en faisant des recherches sur le sujet, je suis tombé sur cette drôle d'anecdote, à propos des trains de l'Expo Express :

The Expo Express was the first fully-automated rapid-transit system in North America. However, this fact was not widely publicised during the fair, as it was felt the public would not readily board a train controlled entirely by a computer. Conducters from Montreal's transit union were placed in cabs at the front and given mundane tasks such as opening and closing the doors of the train to reduce boredom. This actually resulted in a minor incident during the fair, at La Ronde station. The conducter had pressed the button to close the doors and proceed, but his train had already sensed an oncoming express from Ile Notre Dame and automatically delayed the go command to let it roll in. In the meantime, the driver realised he had forgotten his lunch. However, he could not exit though the passenger doors because his train was in a "wait" state and would not allow the doors to open. Instead, he crawled through the small cab window. By the time he had fetched his lunch, however, the oncoming train had pulled in and his train had taken off on its own. It crossed the bridge over the Le Moyne Channel, proceeded along the seaway, and came to a smooth stop at Ile Notre Dame station where an Expo official was waiting. This person crawled back through the cab window and pressed the button to open the doors and let the passengers disembark.

3 commentaires:

PatTheBrat a dit...

Je sais pas pourquoi mais juste en apprenant que s'était le 1er train automatisé j'ai pensé à l'épisode des Simpsons où Homer conduit un monorail.

Anonyme a dit...

Je viens de trouver ceci sur Google map, à Saint Lazare. Avouons que... ça pourrait être ça. Quelqu'un y va?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=fr&q=Saint-clet,+Qu%C3%A9bec,+Canada&sll=46.727624,-70.800018&sspn=0.394421,0.925598&ie=UTF8&ll=45.354618,-74.073306&spn=0.003159,0.007231&t=h&z=17&om=1

- expo67 2.0

MaZe a dit...

Ah ben maudit de maudit, j'ai passé quelques heures sur Google Maps à chercher alentour de St-Lazare mais là, j'avoue que faut que ça soit ça. 8 wagons, juste sur le bord d'une track de train.

J'vais aller faire un tour. Merci pour l'info!!!