Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility

The facility's footprint is . The facility will initially service 76 Bombardier Flexity Freedom vehicles but has capacity for 135 vehicles to handle any expansion of Line 5 Eglinton. According to Metrolinx, the site's ultimate capacity could be 162 Flexity Freedom vehicles. Structures within the MSF will include: • Vehicle cleaning & inspection facility with a train wash, cleaning bay, and an automated vehicle inspection system • Vehicle cleaning staff building • Operations company building • Maintenance building to perform all major repairs • Bridge over the CN/CP rail corridor allowing staff and service vehicles to access the MSF from the west • Backup power facility • Radio mast with a height of The October 2015 design for the facility incorporated two artificial ponds, and green tracks, so its landscaping would better integrate with the adjacent parkland in the Black Creek valley. The facility will have a "green roof". The EMSF has a radio mast for a central radio system to communicate with staff along the line such as dispatchers, operators and maintenance personnel. Three other stations will also have radio masts. The masts at the EMSF and Kennedy station will be tall; Forest Hill and Laird stations will have shorter roof-mounted masts that rise from ground level. ==Operations==

Automatic train control (ATC) is used to move trains within the facility without a driver on board. ATC moves trains automatically around the facility for cleaning, inspection and storage, and will deliver trains from the yard to a hand-over area where drivers take control to move trains onto the mainline tracks. A backup power facility is being constructed adjacent to the CN/CP rail corridor at the northwest corner of the Eglinton facility. In the event of a widespread power outage, the new facility will provide Line 5 vehicles with up to four hours of electrical power. The facility will use lithium-ion batteries, which will be charged overnight in order to reduce peak-period power demands and operating costs. The batteries will have a capacity of 10 MW / 30 MWh, equivalent to what is needed to power 8000 homes for a year. The roof of the facility will have about 250 solar panels to generate 90 kW DC of electricity. In addition to providing emergency power, the battery power would be used daily during peak hours to avoid Ontario Hydro's peak hour surcharge. ==History==

The site was chosen because it was a sufficiently large "brownfield" immediately adjacent to one terminus of the line. and on January 8, 2019, received delivery of the first Flexity Freedom vehicle. ==References==