All aboard for the future!

Commuters and fair-goers will get a sneak peek at the next generation of Toronto transit at the CNE this year. Metrolinx is bringing a mock-up of the new light rail vehicles (LRV) that will eventually run on the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown line, Sheppard, Finch and the SRT.

The mockup isn’t quite the whole deal: The LRVs will be composed of five modules, but the mockup includes only a cab and one other module. It will be on display outside the Direct Energy Centre starting Friday.

It was being transported from a GO bus facility in Halton Hills to the Ex Tuesday.

The Bombardier-built LRVs will be double-ended with a cab at each end, so they can shuttle back and forth on the new LRT lines without turning. Metrolinx signed a contract to buy 182 of the vehicles for $770 million in 2010.

The TTC is expected to operate the new LRT lines, but the province will own the vehicles and tracks. The new system is supposed to be up and running by 2021.

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