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[quote user="sunbeam"]  Cap Metro has a rail grinder working between downtown Austin and Leander. I guess the idea is to make the rail head match the wheel profile of the DMU's. Maybe this will help the signal system 'see' the DMU's.  Veolia is still running tests on DMU's and training of engineers (I believe they're ex-UP employees.)  [/quote] I saw the rail grinder this morning just before 11:00 a.m. whilst I was waiting at the Leander Park & Ride to catch my bus to UT.  It had crossed U.S. 183 and was working north of the highway crossing.  I also saw the train running back and forth through the P&R crossing.  The gates and lights appeared to be working.  The train was still working the crossing when I got back to the P&R at 3:45 p.m.  Either they had not worked out the bugs or they were stress testing the lights, gates, and signals. Last week I saw a couple Cap Metro folks working on the ticket machines at the Leander station.  This did not impress me inasmuch as no one, as far as I know, has been using them.  Clearly, the riding public has not been using them.  I hate to think how much the delay issues are costing Capital Metro, which of course is a cover for saying the local taxpayers, since they pay for approximately 90 per cent of Capital Metro's costs.  I suspect it will be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more.
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