Electrical arcing 'basically melted' LRT power line after January ice storm

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Electrical arcing 'basically melted' LRT power line after January ice storm
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Freezing rain and Ottawa River fog contributed to problems that led to a six\u002Dday shutdown of the system, the transit commission heard.

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“We had eyewitness accounts of arcing in the area and ultimately … the arcing became too serious for the vehicles to continue,” Holder said. “With the slow speed of vehicles trying to move back to the MSF, it resulted in very high-energy arcing that occurred in a very localized section of the contact wire,” Holder said.

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