New home for old TTC streetcar

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • Alexander Glista is 24 years old and just bought his first vehicle - it's 50 feet long, weighs close to 50 thousand pounds and has transported millions of Torontonians. Stella Acquisto talks with the transit enthusiast about his recent purchase.

Комментарии • 49

  • @jonathanlewis2216
    @jonathanlewis2216 4 года назад +35

    I would make a circle of track and just drive around it and make stops. Then play street car with my friends. But that's just me.

    • @CommentLordHandle
      @CommentLordHandle 2 года назад

      No

    • @PWingert1966
      @PWingert1966 5 месяцев назад

      5 miles of track around the outer border of his farm! It would cost over $100K to do.

  • @ohioweatherguy
    @ohioweatherguy 4 года назад +29

    $8,000 seems like a reasonable price... okay reasonable being a relative term here as I’m sure others would spend that money in a different way. But as a fellow rail enthusiast I can understand his interest.

  • @moho472
    @moho472 4 года назад +24

    What a lucky guy, I'm glad he gets to have a piece of history. I'm gonna miss these streetcars

    • @Humulator
      @Humulator 3 года назад

      @Andre The explosion boy ok ik its 7 months old but they were broken

  • @vincentforonda7381
    @vincentforonda7381 Месяц назад

    maybe we'de ride that streetcar for sometime in our lives..what a lucky guy

  • @cablecars1172
    @cablecars1172 3 года назад +5

    You did a good job. I hope you could provide a glass shelter to protect it from the elements. You preserved a history, good aesthetics and design, not to mention proportion. I just wish the City of Toronto kept some few on the street. These can be Tourism Attractions to themselves. Yes, the new trams are functional, but they lack character, charm and nostalgia. I hope Bombardier will design some old style but with a modern functionallity, just like the Santa Teresa Trams of Rio de Janiero, modern machines wth old fashioned design, locals and tourists loves them, a win win situation.

  • @VS257
    @VS257 4 года назад +27

    This guy looks like he's in his mid 30's.

    • @Digikidthevoiceofreason
      @Digikidthevoiceofreason 4 года назад

      You didn't read the description. It is quite apparent you didn't. LOL!!!!!!

    • @lambo8961
      @lambo8961 4 года назад +6

      @@Digikidthevoiceofreason the original commenter said he LOOKS like he's in his mid 30's. They didn't say they ARE in his mid 30's. READ.

    • @amanb8698
      @amanb8698 4 года назад +2

      People can vary in looks. 20s can look 30sish. 30s can look 20sish. Genetics.

  • @Kipling45
    @Kipling45 4 года назад +13

    Imagine MrBeast comes over and makes a last to leave change. Maybe it would sound like "last person to leave the streetcar wins money 💰💲".

    • @NotJustPlanes
      @NotJustPlanes 2 года назад +1

      I wish, he would never come to Canada LOL

    • @Kipling45
      @Kipling45 21 день назад

      @@NotJustPlanes somehow... he did

  • @Novaflyer7000
    @Novaflyer7000 3 года назад +5

    Congrats to my man Alex. Ironically, this streetcar was my final CLRV ever rode.

  • @transitdude3352
    @transitdude3352 4 года назад +19

    Turn it into a cafe.

    • @TransitNerd
      @TransitNerd 4 года назад

      @@drezamuller5400 why not tho

    • @Packle.
      @Packle. 3 года назад +3

      @@TransitNerd That would be a sin the interior is so cool making it a cafe would ruin it.

    • @Packle.
      @Packle. 2 года назад +3

      Nice job destroying history lol

  • @Rod83
    @Rod83 4 года назад +9

    Just 8 thousand yeah that money pocket i guess

  • @Warmpaw0808
    @Warmpaw0808 4 года назад +3

    I’m also enthusiastic with transit! I take it really often!

  • @genesisone7599
    @genesisone7599 4 года назад +2

    Nice something good in the News for a change...😉...

  • @TheBurlingtonTransitFan
    @TheBurlingtonTransitFan 4 года назад +2

    HEY! Maybe you can MAKE MORE Tracks so YOU CAN Run it like a loop.

    • @pdtravels
      @pdtravels 2 года назад

      The streetcar doesnt work.

  • @FilCanJay
    @FilCanJay 4 года назад +6

    Why? Lol. Well I guess it’s nostalgic.

  • @thegameshowgeek
    @thegameshowgeek Год назад +1

    If I owned land for such a purpose, I’d convert one of these to a tiny house. These seem like the perfect way to help people with housing, the others should never have been destroyed.

  • @thesweetone
    @thesweetone 4 года назад +2

    Would make nice little summer units for the homeless in toronto

    • @Nathan-ho7vr
      @Nathan-ho7vr 4 года назад +4

      What do you mean would? TTC has always been a homeless shelter, no matter the season.

  • @tonysimone2043
    @tonysimone2043 4 года назад +3

    thats so cool if you have the money to do it

  • @lvalledor3440
    @lvalledor3440 3 года назад +1

    Luckily this streetcar doesn't have to experience the distress of the covid-19 pandemic. I cannot imagine this streetcar with capacity limits. But yeah, it would be cool to have some more track to be able to drive it.

  • @shitaocheng1527
    @shitaocheng1527 3 года назад +1

    8000dollars for out of service street car is pretty cheap to me

  • @UnrealPhantom
    @UnrealPhantom Год назад

    W mans

  • @tanookinaomi
    @tanookinaomi 11 месяцев назад

    so long partner..

  • @PhrostyGaming
    @PhrostyGaming 4 года назад +2

    He should make track around his land so he can actually ride it 😂

    • @profileprofile
      @profileprofile 3 года назад

      Remember streetcars take piwer from powerlines

    • @darkhoodx6487
      @darkhoodx6487 2 года назад

      @@profileprofile build powerlines

  • @flagship21
    @flagship21 4 года назад +1

    I buy it and live in it

  • @veganchefshabnam-coppervan6702
    @veganchefshabnam-coppervan6702 4 года назад +1

    Wow! That’s so cheap! Lucky guy.

  • @Nathan-ho7vr
    @Nathan-ho7vr 4 года назад +2

    Lol, TTC made more money selling it then they did trying to collect fares with it since 2011.

  • @BurnedNoodle
    @BurnedNoodle 4 года назад +4

    He should get an ALRV.

  • @schnuurtchke
    @schnuurtchke 4 года назад +1

    I want to take one to my home in Mississauga

  • @AMYV3
    @AMYV3 4 года назад

    Cheaper and better then a storage unit. 50 is a great size tiny house I say clear it out of most of what is in it and redo it like a tiny home bus. But larger.

    • @inoutdoor4211
      @inoutdoor4211 3 года назад +1

      It’s history, I doubt he’d gut and ruin it.

  • @LouisonAutomotive
    @LouisonAutomotive 4 года назад

    🇱🇨🇨🇦👍🏽

  • @alexs.9211
    @alexs.9211 3 года назад +1

    I have an old minivan if he wants it lol

  • @oscarjetson128
    @oscarjetson128 4 года назад +2

    It would make a cool cafe or small diner.

  • @city2024newsanahid
    @city2024newsanahid 2 года назад

    In Kentucky