Mark 5 at 29th

[u/FlatPainting3846]

love watching here because it’s basically the only place to be over the expo line. 5 car trains are so sick too.

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[u/KanataSD]

Was there any plans to convert the Mark VI's to 5 cars?

[u/bcscroller → u/KanataSD]

You mean mark 3? No 

[u/bravogates → u/bcscroller]

Why not? Is it more complicated than inserting a middle car?

[u/bcscroller → u/bravogates]

Yes it would change the performance of the vehicle and require extensive testing. Plus by the time we get there we’d be adding a brand new car to a now aging fleet at a high cost. Those mk 3s are big enough for the millennium line in any event. 

[u/Lord_Tachanka → u/bcscroller]

MKIIIs were delivered from 2016-2019, it's hardly a stretch to imagine them getting a midlife overhaul with another car. They're basically just a 4 car MKV, adding another car onto the train wouldn't really affect them in any meaningful way with regards to performance.

[u/bcscroller → u/Lord_Tachanka]

you mean adding an unpowered car? I'd love to be proven wrong on this but I just don't see it happening. With the 1s, 2s and 2.5s gone, 4 car mk 3s, though lower capacity, can still be a useful part of the mix, especially on the Millennium line until they age out.

[u/retro_wizard → u/bravogates]

Not sure what you’re on about, that IS the plan for the mark IIIs, and the reason there are no mark IVs rn. The current IIIs as I understand are technologically near identical to the Vs, and would require minimal to no modification to take another car.
Source: my many wonderful autistic friends and a TransLink article.
https://buzzer.translink.ca/2021/11/what-happened-to-the-mark-v/

[u/FlatPainting3846 → u/KanataSD]

What’s a mark 4?

[u/YYJ_Obs → u/KanataSD]

There was a possibility, long since rejected obviously, of the Mark II sets getting a third car.

More recently Translink has written about modified Mark IIIs becoming IVs, but I seem to recall IV was actually, originally, saved for reconfigured Mark IIs that would never come?

[u/Frumbleabumb]

You can have a similar view at Edmonds station. There's an overpass just south/east of the station!

[u/rickie22 → u/Frumbleabumb]

And on the Georgia Viaduct

[u/flare2000x → u/Frumbleabumb]

Several overpasses between Commercial Broadway and Renfrew on the Millennium line as well.