The metro vacuum that passes by night
24Hrs tells about the train dépoussiéreur that cleans the metro tracks after closing time: a single vehicle dating from 1967 that cannot be replaced.
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Chris 15:42 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
What do you mean cannot be replaced? It’s a glorified vacuum cleaner, hardly beyond our engineering abilities. Of course we are too broke/cheap to do so, but…
Kevin 16:05 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
Earlier this month was provincial stage day, and one of my kids got to go to the STM garage and spend the day checking out this machine and many others.
The mechanics have the tools, equipment and the skills to build an entire train from scratch. They could certainly build another train-sized vacuum cleaner if they had the time and money to do so.
Oh, and it’s not mentioned in that piece, but it’s a three-car train. The first is the vacuum, the two trailers are the garbage containers.